Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ʒor-

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

Noun

*ʒor-

1. carrion, corpse, meat

Descendants

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • Old Georgian: მძორი (mʒori)
    • Georgian: მძორი (mʒori), მძოვრი (mʒovri)
      • → Mingrelian: ნძორი (nʒori)
    • → Zan:
      • Laz: ნძელი (nżeli)
      • Mingrelian: ძელი (ʒeli), ნძელი (nʒeli), ძეძი (ʒeʒi), ნძეძი (nʒeʒi) — by assimilation
• Svan: ძუ̂ერ (ʒûer), ძერ (ʒer), ძორ (ʒor)

References

• Nižaradze, I. I. (1910) “Падаль”, in Русско-сванский словарь [Russian–Svan dictionary] (Сборник материалов для описания местностей и племен Кавказа; 41), Tiflis: тип. Канцелярии наместника е.и.в. на Кавказе, page 303
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, pages 617–618
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 597

Further reading

• Saɣliani, Medea (2023) Važa Šengelia, Naṭo Šavrešiani, editors, Svanuri nasesxebi leksiḳis poneṭiḳur-ponologiuri da semanṭiḳuri analizi [Phonetical-Phonological and Semantic Analysis of Loan-Words in the Svan Language] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, page 165, considers Svan to be a Georgian borrowing