Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/mšwe-
Proto-Kartvelian
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Kartvelian *šew- ~ *šw- (“to give birth”).
Noun
edit*mšwe-
Descendants
edit- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- ⇒ Svan: ჷმსგე (əmsge), სკე (sḳe), სგეჲ (sgey), ლიმსგა̈ჲ (limsgäy, “to have a child”)
References
edit- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 128
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 325
- 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 548