Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/arwa-

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

Etymology

Per Klimov, borrowed from a Semitic dual form based on Proto-Semitic *ʔarbaʕ- (“four”).

Numeral

**Proto-Kartvelian cardinal numbers**
< 7	8	9 >
Cardinal : *arwa-

*arwa-

eight

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Old Georgian: რვაჲ (rvay)
  - Georgian: რვა (rva)
- Zan:
  - Laz: ოვრო (ovro), ორვო (orvo) — Lome
  - Mingrelian: რუო (ruo), ბრუო (bruo)
Svan: არა (ara)

References

Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, pages 44–45
Климов, Г. А. (1967) “Заимствованные числительные в общекартвельском? [Borrowed numerals in Common Kartvelian?]”, in Этимология‎^[1] (in Russian), number 1965, Moscow, pages 308–309
Климов, Г. А. (1977) “Картвельское *otxo- ‘четыре’ ~ индоевропейское *ok̂to- [Kartvelian *otxo- ‘four’ ~ Indo-European *ok̂to-]”, in Этимология‎^[2] (in Russian), number 1975, Moscow, page 163 of 162–163
Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 3
Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 84
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 38