Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/wenaq-

This Proto-Georgian-Zan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Georgian-Zan

Etymology

Borrowed from an unknown Proto-Indo-European source having derived a *weynag- from Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ō (“wine”).

Noun

*wenaq-

1. vine

Descendants

• Old Georgian: ვენაჴი (venaqi, “vine; vineyard”)
  • Georgian: ვენახი (venaxi, “vineyard”)
    • → Mingrelian: ვერნახი (vernaxi)
  • → Bezhta: венахи (venaxi), венахъи (venaqxi)
  • → Svan: უ̂ენაჴ (ûenaq)
• Zan:
  • Laz: ბინეხი (binexi)
  • Mingrelian: ბინეხი (binexi)

Further reading

• Melikišvili, Irine (1975) “E > i ṗrocesi zanur dialekṭebši da xmovanta šesaṭq̇visobis erti darɣveva kartvelur enebši [E > i process in Zan dialects and the disturbance of vowel correspondences in the Kartvelian languages]”, in Macne: enisa da liṭeraṭuris seria (in Georgian), number 4, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 122―128

References

• Gamkrelidze, Th. V., Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 559, 560 and 778
• Климов, Г. А. (1981) “Несколько картвельских индоевропеизмов [Several Kartvelian Indo-Europeanisms]”, in Этимология‎^[1] (in Russian), number 1979, Moscow: Nauka, page 170 of 167–173
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 51
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 198
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 159