Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/berq̇en-

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

Noun

*berq̇en-

1. wild pear
2. wild plum

Descendants

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • ⇒ Georgian: ბერყენა (berq̇ena, “willow-leaved pear (Pyrus salicifolia)”), ბრყენა (brq̇ena), პტყენა (ṗṭq̇ena, “oleaster-leafed pear (Pyrus elaeagrifolia)”)
• Svan: ბა̈რყუ̂ენ (bärq̇ûen, “cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera)”), ბარყუ̂ენდ (barq̇ûend), ბარყუ̂ენ (barq̇ûen), ბა̈რყენ (bärq̇en)

References

• Schmidt, Karl Horst (1962) Studien zur Rekonstruktion des Lautstandes der südkaukasischen Grundsprache (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; XXXIV, 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner GmbH, pages 32, 135, according to Schmidt, Svan "may" be borrowed from Georgian
• Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 54
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 12
• 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 105
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 60

Further reading

• Starostin, S. A. (2005) “*berq̇en-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages, compares to Proto-North-Caucasian *pĭrq_wĂ
• Čuxua, Merab (2007) Iberiul-ičkeriul enata šedarebiti gramaṭiḳa [Ibero-Ichkerian Comparative Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 282―283
• Čuxua, Merab (2012) “Saertoḳavḳasiuri ḳulṭura enobrivi monacemebis mixedvit [Common Caucasian culture according to language data]”, in Ḳavḳasiologiuri ʒiebani (in Georgian), volume IV, Tbilisi, pages 126–147
• Čuxua, Merab (2019) Manana Mač̣avariani, Manana Buḳia, editors, Georgian–Circassian–Apkhazian Etymological Dictionary (expanded edition)‎^[2], Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 80