Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ḳwet-

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

Root

*ḳwet-

1. to chop, cut, cut off

Descendants

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • ⇒ Old Georgian: კუეთს (ḳuets, “to cut (something)”), მოკუეთა (moḳueta, “cutting off”), ნაკუეთი (naḳueti, “lot, part, husk”), საკუთარი (saḳutari, “one's own; very own (something)”), გაკუეთილი (gaḳuetili, “portion, dissection”), განსაკუეთელი (gansaḳueteli, “reward”)
  • Zan:
    • ⇒ Laz: ო-კვათ-უ (o-ǩvat-u, “to cut; cutting”)
    • ⇒ Mingrelian: კვათუა (ḳvatua, “to cut; cutting”), ნაკვათა (naḳvata, “wounded, injured”)
• ⇒ Svan: ლიკუ̂თურე (liḳûture, “cut in thin pieces”), მეკუ̂ეშდ (meḳûešd, “short”)

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 92
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, pages 277–279
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 238