Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/cem-

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

• *c(w)m-el- (Klimov)

Noun

*cem- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)

1. fat

Descendants

• ⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *cem-el-
  • Old Georgian: ცმელი (cmeli)
  • Zan:
    • >? Laz: ციმუ (ʒimu, “sweet”), ⇒ ციმულუღი (ʒimuluği, “a kind of fig”), ლუღიციმუ (luğiʒimu)
    • Mingrelian: ციმუ (cimu)
• ⇒ Svan: ცემილ (cemil)

See also

• *kon-

References

• Č̣araia, Ṗeṭre (1895) “Megruli dialekṭis natesaobrivi damoḳidebuleba kartultan [The genetic relation of the Mingrelian dialect to Georgian]”, in Moambe‎^[1] (in Georgian), number 12, Tbilisi, page 113
• Geleniʒe, Laṭavra (1974) Adamianis anaṭomia-piziologiastan daḳavširebuli leksiḳa ʒvel kartulši (sxva kartveluri enebis monacemebtan šedarebit) [Words related to human anatomy and physiology in Old Georgian (in comparison with data from other Kartvelian languages)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Mecniereba, pages 23–24
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*c(w)m-el-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 265–266
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 577
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 555–556