Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/tom-
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Proto-Kartvelian[edit]
Alternative reconstructions[edit]
- *tma- (Klimov)
Noun[edit]
*tom- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)
Reconstruction notes[edit]
For the semantic shift occurring in Svan, Fähnrich compares Ancient Greek ἴονθος (íonthos, “root of a hair; eruption on the face, which accompanies the first growth of the beard”) ~ Middle Irish find (“hair”).
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Svan: შდო̈მ (šdöm, “rash”)
References[edit]
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 73
- 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 239
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 198
- Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 795