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Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/ɣrma-

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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European, compare Ancient Greek ὄρυγμα (órugma, “ditch, trench”).

Noun

*ɣrma-

  1. hole, pit

Descendants
  • Old Georgian: ღრმაჲ (ɣrmay, “deep”)
    • Georgian: ღრმა (ɣrma), რღმა (rɣma), ღმა (ɣma), რღიმე (rɣime)
  • Zan:
    • Laz: ღორმა (ğorma)
    • ⇒ Mingrelian: ინორღომა (inorɣoma, “deepening”), რღომაჯა (rɣomaǯa, “hollow tree”)
  • →? Old Armenian: խրամ (xram, “ditch”) (see there for further descendants)
  • *ɣarda-[1] (possibly)

References
  1. Čuxua, Merab (2009) “Damaṭebiti masalebi saertokartveluri puʒe-enis leksiḳuri pondisatvis [The Additional Materials for the Commonkartvelian Proto-language Lexical Fund]”, in Kartvelur enata sṭrukṭuris saḳitxebi (in Georgian), number 10, Tbilisi: Universali, page 245 of 227–250
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 233–234
  • Климов, Г. А. (1994) Древнейшие индоевропеизмы картвельских языков [The Oldest Indo-Europeanisms in Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Nasledie, →ISBN, pages 152–154
  • 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, page 518
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 495–496
  • Starostin, S. A. (2005) “*ɣrma-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages
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