Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/egr-
Proto-Georgian-Zan
editRoot
edit*egr-
- referred to Western Kartvelian tribes, namely Mingrelians
Reconstruction notes
editIn Svan there's no trace of this root, instead Svans refer to Mingrelians as მჷ-ზა̈ნ (mə-zän) which is similar to Ancient Greek Τζάννοι (Tzánnoi), a people of Colchis.
Descendants
editDerived terms
edit- ⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *m-egr-el- (“Mingrelian”)
See also
editReferences
edit- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 45, 118–119
- 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 185
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 145–146