Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ɣarɣad-

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

*ɣrɣad- (Fähnrich-Sarǯvelaʒe; Fähnrich)^[1]^[2]

Etymology

Reduplication of *ɣar- : *ɣr- (“to cry, howl, sing”).

Noun

*ɣarɣad- (Klimov)^[3]

wild goose

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Old Georgian: ღერღედი (ɣerɣedi)
  - Georgian: ღერღეტი (ɣerɣeṭi, “black goose”), ღერღედი (ɣerɣedi), ყერყეტი (q̇erq̇eṭi) — Javakheti
- Zan:
  - Laz: ღორღოჯი (ğorğoci)
  - Mingrelian: ღორღონჯი (ɣorɣonǯi)
Svan: ღარღა̄დ (ɣarɣād)

References

^ Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 520
^ Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 497–498
^ Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 221

Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, page 116
Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (1985) “Umlauṭis ḳvali kartulši [Traces of umlaut in Georgian]”, in Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis moambe (in Georgian), volume 120, number 1, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 197―200

[1] Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 520

[2] Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 497–498

[3] Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 221

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