Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/zm-

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

Root

*zm-

to dream (to see imaginary events while sleeping)

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Zan:
  - ⇒ Mingrelian: ზიმაფა (zimapa)
⇒ Svan: ლიზმა̄ლუნე (lizmālune)

Derived terms

⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *zm-an- (“to dream; to think”)
- ⇒ Old Georgian: ზმანება (zmaneba)
- Zan:
  - ⇒ Laz: ო-ზმონ-უ (o-zmon-u)
⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *lʿi-zm-ar- (“dream”)
- Old Georgian: სიზმარი (sizmari)
  - Georgian: სიზმარი (sizmari)
    - → Mingrelian: სიზმარი (sizmari), სიზიმარი (sizimari), სიზუმარი (sizumari), სიზჷმარი (sizəmari)
- Zan:
  - Laz: იზმოჯე (izmoce), ეზმოჯე (ezmoce); ეზმოჟე (ezmoje) (← *იზმორ- (*izmor-))

References

Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 59
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 215–216
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 175