Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/ḳwax-

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

Alternative reconstructions

*m-ḳwax-e- (Klimov)

Adjective

*ḳwax- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)

unripe

Reconstruction notes

According to Klimov, seemingly formed from an unattested verb root *ḳwax- with the help of *m- -e circumfix. The inherited nature of Svan is debated. According to Klimov, it's borrowed from Zan. If the Svan word is indeed inherited, then a Proto-Kartvelian source is reconstructible.

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- ⇒ Georgian: მკვახე (mḳvaxe)
- Zan:
  - Laz: კოხა (ǩoxa, “unripe grapes, juice made from unripe grapes”)
  - Mingrelian: კოხა (ḳoxa)
    - → Abkhaz: акәаха (akʷʼaxa)
>? Svan: კუხ (ḳux), კუხუ̂ (ḳuxû), კუ̂იხუ̂ (ḳûixû), კუ̈ხუ̂ (ḳüxû)

References

Erckert, Roderich von (1895) Die Sprachen des kaukasischen Stammes. II. Theil. Sprachproben und grammatische Skizzen (in German), the Kartvelian section contributed by Mose Ǯanašvili, Vienna: Alfred Hölder, page 292
Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 123
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 276
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 236–237

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