Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/lʿʒ₁e-

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

Alternatie reconstructions

*(s)ʒ₁e- (Klimov, 1998)

Noun

*lʿʒ₁e-

milk

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Old Georgian: სძჱ (sʒē), სძეჲ (sʒey), სძე (sʒe)
  - Georgian: რძე (rʒe)
- Zan: *bǯa- ← *ǯa-
  - Laz: ბჯა (bca), მჯა (mca), მჟა (mja), ბჟა (bja)
  - Mingrelian: ბჟა (bža)
Svan: ლჷჯე (ləǯe)

References

Цагарели, Ал. (1880) Мингрельские этюды. Второй выпуск. Опыт фонетики мингрельского языка [Mingrelian Studies. Part II. An Attempt at Phonetics of the Mingrelian Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 62
Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, page 108
Schmidt, Karl Horst (1962) Studien zur Rekonstruktion des Lautstandes der südkaukasischen Grundsprache (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; XXXIV, 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 78―79
Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 172―173
Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 177―178
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 736―737
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 723―724