Reconstruction talk:Proto-Georgian-Zan/qund-

Parallels

This reminds me of the situation with *ḳaṗ-: a somewhat sound-symbolic formation with parallels in many languages. Compare Armenian կունդ (kund) and its Iranian etymon. Vahag (talk) 09:25, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Except in that case the only thing on the Kartvelian side of things that we had going for us is the vocalism. Here we have d → ǯ which makes it more secure. More importantly we have [qʰ], which obviously has nothing to do with Armenian-Iranian k. კვარია (talk) 09:32, 20 June 2022 (UTC)