Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/zrkel-
Proto-Georgian-Zan edit
Etymology edit
*zrk- (“to be thick, clumsy”) + *-el
Adjective edit
*zrk-el- or *zirk-el-
Descendants edit
- Old Georgian: ზრქელი (zrkeli, “thick, stout”), სქელი (skeli)
- Zan:
- Mingrelian: ზირქალი (zirkali, “clumsy”)
References edit
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 61
- Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 218
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 178
- Abašia, Revaz (2014) “Sibilanṭur ponemata sisṭema kartvelur da daɣesṭnur enebši”, in Ḳavḳasiologiuri ʒiebani (in Georgian), number 7, Tbilisi, pages 51–52
Further reading edit
- Rogava, Giorgi (1984) Kartvelur enata isṭoriuli poneṭiḳis saḳitxebi. II [Problems in the historical phonetics of the Kartvelian languages. II] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 45