Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ṗer-
Proto-Kartvelian edit
Etymology edit
Onomatopoeic, compare Proto-Georgian-Zan *par-.
Root edit
*ṗer-
- to fly
Derived terms edit
- ⇒ Proto-Kartvelian: *ṗerṗer- (“butterfly”)
Descendants edit
See also edit
References edit
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 149
- 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 370–371
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 330-331