Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/šubl-

This Proto-Kartvelian 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-Kartvelian

Alternative reconstructions

• *šub- (Fähnrich-Sarǯvelaʒe)

Noun

*šubl-

1. forehead
2. front part

Descendants

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • Old Georgian: შუბლი (šubli)
    • Georgian: შუბლი (šubli)
  • Zan:
    • ⇒? Laz: მსქიბუ (mskibu, “mill”)
    • ⇒? Mingrelian: სქიბუ (skibu, “millstone”)
• ⇒ Svan: სგუ̂ებინ (sgûebin, “front, forward; first”)

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*šubl-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 253
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) “*šub-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 556
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) “*šub-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 534