Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/band-

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

Root

*band-

to interweave, plait

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- ⇒ Georgian: ბანდვა (bandva, “to strap up a shoe”), გაბანდვა (gabandva, “to plait, interlace”), ბანდული (banduli, “bast shoe, boot”)
- Zan:
  - ⇒ Mingrelian: ბონდი (bondi, “plaited, braided; wattled suspended bridge”), ბონდილი (bondili, “net”)
⇒ Svan: ლიბა̄ნდე (libānde, “to patch up, darn, mend”), ლჷბა̄ნდე (ləbānde, “patched up”)

References

Иллич-Свитыч, В. М. (1971) В. А. Дыбо, editor, Опыт сравнения ностратических языков [Comparative Dictionary of Nostratic Languages]‎^[1], Moscow: Nauka, page 194, links together Georgian, Mingrelian words
Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 7
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 93, adds Svan
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 47
Čuxua, Merab (2007) Iberiul-ičkeriul enata šedarebiti gramaṭiḳa [Ibero-Ichkerian Comparative Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 276, compares Chechen ванда (vanda, “trotline”), Ingush уонда (wonda)