Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/bandɣ-

This Proto-Georgian-Zan 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-Georgian-Zan

Root

*bandɣ-

1. to spin web

Descendants

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • ⇒ Georgian: (Guria, Imereti) ბანდღი (bandɣi, “spiderweb”), ბანდღვა (bandɣva, “web spinning”), (Racha) ფანთხი (pantxi, “spiderweb”)
  • Zan:
    • ⇒ Mingrelian: ბონდღი (bondɣi, “spiderweb”), ბონდღუა (bondɣua, “web spinning, sew basting”)
• >? Svan: ფა̈̄ნთხ (pǟntx, “spiderweb”) (or borrowed from Racha Georgian)

References

• Žɣenṭi, Sergi (1940) “Zanizmebi gurul zmnebši [Zanisms in Gurian verbs]”, in Enis, isṭoriisa da maṭerialuri ḳulṭuris insṭiṭuṭis aḳademiḳos niḳo maris saxelobis moambe (in Georgian), volumes V–VI, Tbilisi, page 225 of 223–232
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 8
• 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 93–94
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 47
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 424, considers Georgian ფანთხი (pantxi), Svan ფა̈̄ნთხ (pǟntx) to be unrelated and reconstructs a separate Proto-Kartvelian root *pantx-; wonders if Svan ლაფო̄ნთხი̄რ (lapōntxīr) represents a Mingrelian borrowing where vocalism with ო (o) would be expected
• Čuxua, Merab (2007) Iberiul-ičkeriul enata šedarebiti gramaṭiḳa [Ibero-Ichkerian Comparative Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, pages 276–277, adds Svan