Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ɣer-

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 edit

Noun edit

*ɣer-

stem, stalk

Reconstruction notes edit

Klimov connects here Laz ღანჯი (ğanci, “leg, thigh, calf of leg”),^[1] however this is rejected by Fähnrich-Sarǯvelaʒe and Čuxua.^[2]^[3]^[4] Čuxua adds Mingrelian აღაჯა ← *ო-ღაჯ-ა (aɣaǯa ← *o-ɣaǯ-a, “main beam of roof”).^[4]

Descendants edit

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Old Georgian: ღერი (ɣeri)
  - Georgian: ღერო (ɣero, “stem, stalk, tree trunk”), ღერი (ɣeri)
    - → Armenian: ղեր (ġer)
    - → Bats: ღერო̂ (ɣerô)
    - → Laz: ღერი (ğeri)
      - → Turkish: ğeri (Hamshen)
    - → Mingrelian: ღერი (ɣeri)
- Zan:
  - ⇒ Mingrelian: აღაჯა (aɣaǯa, “main beam of roof”)
Svan: ღე̄რ (ɣēr, “stem, stalk”)

References edit

^ Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 223
^ 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 506
^ Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 482
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Čuxua, Merab (2009) “Damaṭebiti masalebi saertokartveluri puʒe-enis leksiḳuri pondisatvis [The Additional Materials for the Commonkartvelian Proto-language Lexical Fund]”, in Kartvelur enata sṭrukṭuris saḳitxebi (in Georgian), number 10, Tbilisi: Universali, page 233 of 227–250