Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/laɣw-

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

Reconstruction

Compare Abkhaz а-лаҳа (a-laḥa, “fig”), Ubykh лахьы (laxʲə).

Noun

*laɣw-

1. fig

Descendants

• Old Georgian: ლეღჳ (leɣwi)
  • Georgian: ლეღვი (leɣvi), ლოღ (loɣ)
    • → Avar: легъви (leğʷi), легъу (leğu) — Antsukh
    • → Bats: ლეღვ (leɣv)
    • → Bezhta: легъи (leği), легъу (leğu)
    • → Hinukh: легъи (leġi)
    • → Hunzib: легъи (leġi)
    • → Ossetian: легъуи (leǧwi)
    • → Svan: ლეღუ̂ (leɣû)
    • → Tsez: легъи (leġi)
• Zan:
  • Laz: ლუღი (luği)
  • Mingrelian: ლუღი (luɣi)

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 124
• 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 302
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 264–265

Further reading

• Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, pages 120–121, 133–134
• Gudava, Ṭogo (1960) “O-s u-ši gadasvlis zogierti šemtxveva zanur (megrul-č̣anur) enaši [Some cases of transition of o into u in Zan (Mingrelian-Chan) language]”, in Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis moambe (in Georgian), volume 25, number 1, Tbilisi, page 119―122
• Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (1985) “Umlauṭis ḳvali kartulši [Traces of umlaut in Georgian]”, in Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis moambe (in Georgian), volume 120, number 1, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 197―200
• Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, page 146
• Chirikba, Viacheslav A. (1996) Common West Caucasian: The Reconstruction of its Phonological System and Parts of its Lexicon and Morphology, Leiden: Research School CNWS, →ISBN, page 303