კველა

Mingrelian

Alternative forms
  • კვეა (ḳvea), კვალა (ḳvala)

Etymology

From *კვილ-ა (*ḳvil-a), from Proto-Kartvelian *ḳwil-.[1][2] Cognate with Laz კული (ǩuli, “chair”), Svan კუ̂ილ (ḳûil, “block of wood, tree stump; stool”), and possibly dialectal Georgian კვილო (ḳvilo, “small block of wood, tree stump”).

According to Klimov, from a Northeast Caucasian source.[3] Compare Tsez къуӏри (q’uʿri, “bench”), Hinukh къуре (q’ure), Dargwa уркьули (urq̇uli, “board”), for which Starostin-Nikolayev reconstructs Proto-Northeast Caucasian *q̇wǝ̆lʔă.[4]

Noun

კველა • (ḳvela) (plural კველეფი)

  1. stool, seat

Descendants
  • → Georgian: კველა (ḳvela, “stool”)

References
  1. Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, pages 134-135
  2. Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 257
  3. Klimov, G. A. (1970) “О некоторых словарных общностях картвельских и нахско-дагестанских языков [On some common vocabulary in Kartvelian and Nakh-Daghestanian languages]”, in Этимология‎, Moscow: Nauka, page 353 of 349–355
  4. Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*q̇wǝ̆lʔă”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

Further reading
  • Kajaia, Otar (2005) “კველა”, in Megrul-kartuli leksiḳoni [Mingrelian–Georgian Dictionary], online version prepared by Joost Gippert, Frankfurt am Main, published 2001–2004, page 690
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