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Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ca-

This Proto-Kartvelian 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-Kartvelian

Etymology 1

Noun

*ca-

  1. sky
Descendants
  • Proto-Georgian-Zan:
    • Old Georgian: ცაჲ (cay)
      • Georgian: ცა (ca)
    • Zan:
  • ⇒ Svan: ცა̈̄შ (cǟš, “Thursday”, literally “of sky”)

References
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 261
  • 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 574
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 552―553

Etymology 2

Alternative reconstructions
  • *caj- (Klimov)

Noun

*ca- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)

  1. elm
Descendants

References
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*caj-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 262
  • Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) “*ca-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, pages 574–575
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) “*ca-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 553
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