Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/beɣel-
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Proto-Kartvelian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
*beɣ- (“to be enough”) + *-el. The Svan word was added by Fähnrich, see Proto-Kartvelian *-el for more.
Noun[edit]
*beɣ-el-
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Svan: ბაღ (baɣ)
References[edit]
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 12―13, compares Svan ბღე (bɣe, “pit”)
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 62―63
- Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 774―775