Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/mšwil-

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *mšwild- (Klimov)

Noun

*mšwil- (Fähnrich-Sarǯvelaʒe)

1. bow (weapon)

Descendants

• ⇒ Old Georgian: მშჳლდი (mšwildi)
  • Georgian: მშვილდი (mšvildi)
• Zan:
  • ⇒ Mingrelian: შქვილი (škvili), შკვილი (šḳvili), შქვინდი (škvindi)

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1964) “*mšwild-”, in Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 140
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sardshweladse, Surab (1995) “*mšwil-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Kartwel-Sprachen (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.29) (in German), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, pages 248–249
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*mšwild-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 129
• Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) “*mšwil-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, pages 340–341
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) “*mšwil-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 301

Further reading

• Ḳarṭozia, Guram (1984) “Sibilanṭta šesaṭq̇visobis darɣvevata axsnisatvis kartvelur enebši [Toward an explanation of disturbances of the sibilant correspondences in Kartvelian languages]”, in Macne: enisa da liṭeraṭuris seria (in Georgian), number 2, Tbilisi, pages 130–144