Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/arwa-

This Proto-Kartvelian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Kartvelian

Etymology

Per Klimov, borrowed from a Semitic dual form based on Proto-Semitic *ʔarbaʕ- (“four”). Compare Akkadian 𒐉 (erbet, “four”).

Numeral

Proto-Kartvelian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : *arwa-

*arwa-

1. eight

Descendants

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • Old Georgian: რვაჲ (rvay)
    • Georgian: რვა (rva)
  • Zan:
    • Laz: ოვრო (ovro), ორვო (orvo)
    • Mingrelian: რუო (ruo), ბრუო (bruo)
• Svan: არა (ara)

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, pages 44–45
• Климов, Г. А. (1967) “Заимствованные числительные в общекартвельском? [Borrowed numerals in Common Kartvelian?]”, in Этимология‎^[1] (in Russian), number 1965, Moscow, pages 308–309
• Климов, Г. А. (1977) “Картвельское *otxo- ‘четыре’ ~ индоевропейское *ok̂to- [Kartvelian *otxo- ‘four’ ~ Indo-European *ok̂to-]”, in Этимология‎^[2] (in Russian), number 1975, Moscow, page 163 of 162–163
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 3
• 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 84
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 38