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Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/katam-

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
  • *kat- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)[1][2]

Etymology

A pan-Caucasian cultural word. Compare Chechen котам (kotam), Ingush котам (kotam), Bats ქოთამ (kotam); Bezhta гуьдаь (güdä), Hunzib гудо (gudo); Rutul кӏатӏ (ḳaṭ), Tsakhur кӏатӏе (ḳaṭe); Adyghe чэты (čɛtə), кьэт (kʲɛt), Kabardian джэд (džɛd); Abkhaz а-куты (a-kʼutʼə), Abaza квтӏу (kʷtʼu).

Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe reconstruct Proto-Kartvelian *kat-,[1][2] however this is rejected by Klimov according to whom Kartvelians were not familiar with this fowl at Common Kartvelian stage and were only introduced to it by around 7-6th centuries BC.[3][4][5]

Starostin-Nikolayev derive from Proto-Nakh *kotam, whereas Klimov takes the borrowing in the other direction.[6][4]

Note also Laz ქორმე (korme).

Noun

*katam- (Klimov)[5]

  1. chicken

Descendants

References
  1. 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 483–483
  2. Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 455
  3. Климов, Г. А. (1988) “Дополнения к этимологическому словарю картвельских языков. III [Additions to the Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages. III]”, in Этимология‎ (in Russian), number 1985, Moscow: Nauka, page 152 of 151–165
  4. Klimov, G. A. (1994) Einführung in die kaukasische Sprachwissenschaft [Introduction to Caucasian Linguistics]‎ (in German), German adaptation by Jost Gippert, Hamburg: Buske Helmut, pages 289-290
  5. Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 211–212
  6. Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*gwāṭa”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

Further reading
  • Ǯavaxišvili, Ivane (1937) Kartveli eris isṭoriis šesavali. Ṭomi 2. Kartuli da ḳavḳasiuri enebis tavdaṗirveli buneba da natesaoba [Introduction to the history of the Georgian nation. Volume II. The original structure and relations of Caucasian and Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Academy Press, pages 613–617
  • Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, pages 195–196, reconstructs Proto-Kartvelian *katam-
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