Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/bard-

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

*bard-

1. undergrowth, brush, bushes

Descendants

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • Georgian: ბარდი (bardi)
    • → Mingrelian: ბარდი (bardi)
      • → Abkhaz: а-бард (a-bard)
  • Zan:
    • Mingrelian: ბურდი (burdi)
• Svan: ბა̈რდ (bärd, “stem, stalk of climbing plants; ivy (Hedera spp.); undergrowth, brush”)

References

• Климов, Г. А. (1988) “Дополнения к этимологическому словарю картвельских языков. III [Additions to the Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages. III]”, in Этимология‎^[1] (in Russian), number 1985, Moscow: Nauka, page 153 of 151–165
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 8
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 95
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 50