Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/nena-

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

A nursery term.

Noun

*nena-

mother
Synonym: *ded-

Antonym: *mam-

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Georgian: ნენაი (nenai, “mother”), ნენაჲ (nenay, “grandmother, mother”)
- Zan:
  - Laz: ნანა (nana, “mother”)
  - Mingrelian: ნანა (nana, “mother”)
⇒ Svan: ნანა̈გ (nanäg, “mother's native village; mother's house”)

References

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, page 36―39
Klimov, G. A. (1964) “*nana-”, in Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 146, reconstructs Proto-Georgian-Zan *nana- without the connection to Georgian and Svan
Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*nana-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 137―138
Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) “*nena-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 358
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) “*nena-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 319
Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) “*nena-”, in Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, page 164―165, adds the Svan word