Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ʒ₁w-
Appearance
Proto-Kartvelian
[edit]Root
[edit]*ʒ₁w-
- to be old
Derived terms
[edit]- ⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *ʒ₁w-el- (“old, decrepit”)
- ⇒ Proto-Kartvelian: *ʒ₁w-en- : *ʒ₁w-in- (“to become old”)
- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Zan:
- ⇒ Laz: ომჯვენუ (omcvenu, “aging, growing old”)
- Zan:
- ⇒ Svan: ჯუ̂ინელ (ǯûinel, “old”), ლიჯუ̂ნა̈ლე (liǯûnäle, “aging, growing old”)
- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
References
[edit]- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 286
- Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, pages 625–626
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 606