Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ḳwarc₁x-

*ḳwarc₁x-

1. foot, leg

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • ⇒ Old Georgian: კუარცხლბერკი (ḳuarcxlberḳi, “pedestal, footstool”), კუარცხლბეკი (ḳuarcxlbeḳi)
    • Georgian: კვარცხლბეკი (ḳvarcxlbeḳi)
  • Zan:
    • Laz: კუჩხე (ǩuçxe), კუშხე (ǩuşxe)
    • Mingrelian: კუჩხი (ḳučxi)
• ⇒ Svan: კუ̂არჩხა̈ჲ (ḳûarčxäy, “lame, limping”), მუკუ̂ჩხი (muḳûčxi), ლიკუ̂ჩხჲელ (liḳûčxyel, “lameness”)

• ⇒ Proto-Kartvelian: *ḳurc₁x-
  • Proto-Georgian-Zan:
    • ⇒ Old Georgian: მკჳრცხლი (mḳwircxli, “pedastrian, foot soldier”)
  • ⇒ Svan: ჭიშხ (č̣išx, “foot, leg”), ჭჷშხ (č̣əšx), მჷჭშხი (məč̣šxi, “trail blazer, tracker”), ლაჭჷშხ (lač̣əšx, “step”)

• Марр, Н. Я. (1912) “Тубал-кайнскiй вкладъ въ сванскомъ”, in Извѣстія Императорской Академіи Наукъ (in Russian), volume 6, page 1094―1095
• Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, page 79―80
• Klimov, G. A. (1964) “*ḳwarc₁x-”, in Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 109
• 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 297–298
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 235―236

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*ḳwirc₁x-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 95
• Starostin, S. A. (2005) “*ḳurćx- / *ḳwarćx-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages, compares to Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*ḳʷar(V)čV”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
• Čuxua, Merab (2007) Iberiul-ičkeriul enata šedarebiti gramaṭiḳa [Ibero-Ichkerian Comparative Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 374, compares to Avar короч (koroč, “sole of a sock”), квачӏ (kʷačʼ, “leg, paw”), Lezgi кӏвач (ḳvač, “leg, foot”), Rutul кӏварч (ḳvarč, “hoof”), Tsakhur кӏорч (ḳorč), Khinalug кӏуччи (ḳučːi, “heel, foot”), Bats კაჩ (ḳač, “foot”)