Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/s₁wel-
Proto-Kartvelian
editEtymology 1
editProbably from *s₁ow- (“to be wet”) + *-el, in which case this root is the same as Proto-Georgian-Zan *s₁ow-el- (“wet, damp, soaked”).
Noun
edit*s₁wel-
Descendants
edit- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Svan: შუ̂ელ (šûel)
References
edit- 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 131
- Gamq̇reliʒe, Tamaz (1959) Giorgi C̣ereteli, editor, Sibilanṭta šesaṭq̇visobani da kartvelur enata uʒvelesi sṭrukṭuris zogi saḳitxi [Sibilant correspondences and some problems of the oldest structure of the Kartvelian languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis gamomcemloba, page 17–18 of 1–86
- 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, pages 418–419
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 382
Etymology 2
edit
Noun
edit*s₁wel-
Descendants
edit- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- ⇒ Old Georgian: მსუენი (msueni)
- Zan:
- ⇒ Mingrelian: შველა (švela, “grass snake”)
- → Georgian: შველა (švela) (obsolete), ⇒ (Chveneburi) მეშველაჲ (mešvelay)
- Svan: შუ̂ა̈ლ (šûäl)
References
edit- Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, page 313
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 382
Further reading
edit- Schmidt, Karl Horst (1962) Studien zur Rekonstruktion des Lautstandes der südkaukasischen Grundsprache (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; XXXIV, 3)[2] (in German), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 125, conflates this root with Proto-Kartvelian *m-xul-