Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/qweza-

• *qwaza- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)

*qweza- (Klimov)

1. loaf, pie, cake

• Old Georgian: ჴუეზაჲ (quezay)
  • Georgian: ხვეზა (xveza)
    • → Mingrelian: ხვეზა (xveza)
• Zan:
  • Mingrelian: ხოზო (xozo)

• Ч͑арая, П. (1912) Об отношении абхазского языка к яфетическим [On the relation of Abkhaz with Japhetic languages] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 4)‎ (in Russian), edited and supplemented by N. Marr, Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 15
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*qweza-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 336
• Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) “*qwaza-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, pages 714–715
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) “*qwaza-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 704

• Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (1985) “Umlauṭis ḳvali kartulši [Traces of umlaut in Georgian]”, in Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis moambe (in Georgian), volume 120, number 1, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 197―200
• Chirikba, Viacheslav V. (2006) “Abkhaz Loans in Megrelian”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎, volume 10, number 1, pages 60–61, erroneously derives Kartvelian terms from Abkhaz ахәажә (axʷaẑʷ)