< Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan

Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/kwrdeml-

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

Root

*kwrdeml-

anvil

Descendants

Old Georgian: ქჳრდემლი (kwirdemli), გურდემლი (gurdemli)
- Middle Georgian: გრდემლი (grdemli)
  - Georgian: გრდემლი (grdemli), (dialectal) ქურთემული (kurtemuli), დგვლემი (dgvlemi)
Zan:
- Mingrelian: ქულამური (kulamuri), ქულამორი (kulamori)
  - → Svan: ქურმილ (kurmil)

Unsorted borrowings

→? Archi: гелден (gelden, “log”)
→? Avar: герен (geren, “small log, block”)
→? Bezhta: герден (gerden, “log”)
→? Bezhta: гердена (gerdena)
→? Lezgi: гирдим (girdim, “block”), гирдили (girdili)
→? Tabasaran: гэрдэм (gerdem, “boulder”)
→? Tsakhur: гирдым
→? Udi: гуьрдуьм (gürdüm, “block”)

References

Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 217
Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*kŏrdV”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

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