Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/barḳ-

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

*barḳ-

1. thigh, haunch, leg

Descendants

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • ⇒ Old Georgian: ბარკალი (barḳali, “thigh, haunch”), ბრკომაჲ (brḳomay, “fetter, shackle; snare”), ბრკოლაჲ (brḳolay)
    • →⇒? Mingrelian: ებარკანუა (ebarḳanua, “to roll up one's pants up to knees”)
  • Zan:
    • ⇒ Laz: ბორკელა (borǩela, “someone with long and mishapen legs”), ობორკუ (oborǩu, “to kick, swipe with leg, paw”)
    • ⇒ Mingrelian: ბორკი (borḳi, “leg, thigh, shin”), ბორკუა (borḳua, “to fetter, shackle”)
      • →⇒ Georgian: ბორკვა (borḳva, “fettering, hobbling”)
    • →⇒ Old Georgian: ბორკილი (borḳili, “fetters, shackles”)
    • → Svan: ბერკილ (berḳil, “fetters, shackles”)
• ⇒ Svan: ბარკა̈ (barḳä, “bow-legged”)

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 9
• 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 96–97
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 50–51
• Ḳelauraʒe, Levan (2014) “Damaṭebani kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳonisatvis - II [Addenda to Etymological Dictionary of Kartvelian Languages - II]”, in Eṭimologiuri ʒiebani (in Georgian), volume XI, Tbilisi: Dedaena, page 19 of 17–37
• Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 777

Further reading

• Goniašvili, Tinatin (1940) “Leksiḳuri šexvedrebi čačnurisa kartvelur enebtan [The lexical interactions of Chechen with Kartvelian languages]”, in Enis, isṭoriisa da maṭerialuri ḳulṭuris insṭiṭuṭis aḳademiḳos niḳo maris saxelobis moambe (in Georgian), volumes V–VI, Tbilisi, page 594 of 575–632, compares with Chechen берг (berg, “hoof”), Ingush барг (barg)
• Čuxua, Merab (2007) Iberiul-ičkeriul enata šedarebiti gramaṭiḳa [Ibero-Ichkerian Comparative Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 282, same comparison as above