Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/c₁olʿ-

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *c₁ol- (Klimov, 1998)

Noun

*c₁olʿ- (Fähnrich-Sarǯvelaʒe 2000, Fähnrich 2007)

1. wife

Descendants

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • Old Georgian: ცოლი (coli)
    • Georgian: ცოლი (coli)
  • Zan:
    • Laz: ჩილი (çili)
    • Mingrelian: ჩილი (čili)
• ⇒ Svan: ლიჩშუ̂იელ (ličšûiel, “coire”), ნაჩოშ (načoš, “coitus”)

References

• Schmidt, Karl Horst (1962) Studien zur Rekonstruktion des Lautstandes der südkaukasischen Grundsprache (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; XXXIV, 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 150a
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 600
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 580–581
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 272

Further reading

• Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, pages 49–50
• Klimov, G. A. (1964) “*c₁oz₁-”, in Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 230, reflects an earlier stage of Kartvelian research