< Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan

Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/mč̣ad-

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

A cultural term. Compare Proto-Northeast Caucasian *č_wăṭi, Armenian ճաթ (čatʻ).

Noun

*mč̣ad-

  1. bread (of millet); mč̣adi

Descendants
  • Georgian: მჭადი (mč̣adi)
  • Zan: *mč̣ḳud-

References
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 132–133
  • 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 345
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 305
  • Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “č_wăṭi”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

Further reading
  • Gudava, Ṭogo (1960) “O-s u-ši gadasvlis zogierti šemtxveva zanur (megrul-č̣anur) enaši [Some cases of transition of o into u in Zan (Mingrelian-Chan) language]”, in Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis moambe (in Georgian), volume 25, number 1, Tbilisi, page 119―122
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