Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/maar
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Proto-Nakh
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]*maar
Descendants
[edit]- Bats: მარ (mar)
- Vainakh:
- → Svan: მა̄რე (māre), მარე (mare)
- →⇒? Old Georgian: სა-მარ-ე (sa-mar-e, “grave, tomb”), სტუმარი (sṭumari, “guest”, literally “wife-husband (?)”)
References
[edit]- Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*mōrŁV”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
- Čuxua, Merab (2007) Iberiul-ičkeriul enata šedarebiti gramaṭiḳa [Ibero-Ichkerian Comparative Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, pages 403–404, links with Svan მა̄რე (māre, “man”)