Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/s₁wan-
Proto-Kartvelian
editNoun
edit*s₁wan-
- Svan (person)
Descendants
edit- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Old Georgian: სუანი (suani)
- Zan:
- ⇒ Svan: შუ̂ა̈ნ (šûän, “Svaneti”), მუშუ̂ა̈ნ (mušûän, “Svan person”), შუ̂ანა̈რ (šûanär, “Svan people”), ლუშნუ (lušnu, “Svan”, adjective)
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, page 179
- 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 418
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 381
Further reading
edit- Hewsen, Robert H. (1992) The Geography of Ananias of Širak (Ašxarhac‘oyc‘): the long and the short recensions. Introduction, translation and commentary (Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. Reihe B (Geisteswissenschaften); 77)[1], Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 111