Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ʒ₁uwan-
Proto-Kartvelian
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edit*ʒ₁uwan-
- to be in heat (of animals)
Descendants
edit- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- ⇒ Georgian: მძუვნობა (mʒuvnoba), მძუნაობა (mʒunaoba)
- Zan:
- ⇒ Laz: მე-ნჟულ-უ, მე-ჟუნდ-უ, მე-ნჯუდ-უ, მე-ჯუნდ-უ (me-njul-u, me-jund-u, me-ncud-u, me-cund-u, “kiss”)
- ⇒ Mingrelian: ჯუნა (ǯuna, “kiss”), ჯუნაფა (ǯunapa) — Zugdidi–Samurzakano; ჯუდა (ǯuda), ჯვიდა (ǯvida) — Senaki
- ⇒ Svan: ლიჯუ̂ა̈ნი (liǯûäni)
References
edit- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 290
- 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 631
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 611