Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/kwis₁l-

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *kwis₁- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)

Noun

*kwis₁l- (Klimov)

1. brother-in-law

Descendants

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • Georgian: ქვისლი (kvisli), ქვისელი (kviseli), მქვისელი (mkviseli)
  • Zan:
    • Mingrelian: ქვიშილი (kvišili)
• ⇒ Svan: მექუ̂შე̄ლ (mekûšēl), მექშოლ (mekšol), მოქშა̈ლ (mokšäl)

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 217
• 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 493–494
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 465–466