Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/šor-

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

Noun

*šor-

1. rhododendron, common rhododendron, pontic rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum)

Descendants

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • Zan:
    • Laz: მშქერი (mşkeri), მშკერი (mşǩeri); შქერი (şkeri); შკერი (şǩeri)
    • Mingrelian: შქერი (škeri)
    • → Georgian: შქერი (škeri), შკერი (šḳeri); ლეშკერი (lešḳeri), ლეშკი (lešḳi); ჟგერი (žgeri)
    • → Svan: შკერი (šḳeri), შგერი (šgeri)
• Svan: შგო̄რი (šgōri)

References

• Topuria, Varlam (1926) “Poneṭiḳuri daḳvirvebani kartvelur enebši I [Phonetic observations in Kartvelian languages I]”, in Mimomxilveli (in Georgian), Tiflis, page 203 of 198–219
• 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 142
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 252
• 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, pages 558–559
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 533