Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/zapxul-

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

From Proto-Kartvelian *za- (“year, season”) + *px- (“for the weather to be clear”).

Noun

*za-px-ul-

1. summer

Descendants

• Old Georgian: ზაფხული (zapxuli)
  • Georgian: ზაფხული (zapxuli)

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 55; 209
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 166; 450