Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/wenaq-

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

Borrowed from an unknown Proto-Indo-European source having derived a *weynag- from Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ō (“wine”).

Noun

*wenaq-

  1. vine

Descendants

  • Old Georgian: ვენაჴი (venaqi, “vine; vineyard”)
    • Georgian: ვენახი (venaxi, “vineyard”), ვენაჴ (venaq) — Kakheti, Ingilo, მენაჴ (menaq) — Ingilo
      • → Mingrelian: ვერნახი (vernaxi)
    • → Bezhta: венахи (venaxi), венахъи (venaqxi)
    • → Svan: უ̂ენაჴ (ûenaq)
  • Zan:

Further reading

  • Melikišvili, Irine (1975), “E > i ṗrocesi zanur dialekṭebši da xmovanta šesaṭq̇visobis erti darɣveva kartvelur enebši [E > i process in Zan dialects and the disturbance of vowel correspondences in the Kartvelian languages]”, in Macne: enisa da liṭeraṭuris seria (in Georgian), number 4, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 122―128

References

  • Gamkrelidze, Th. V.; Ivanov, V. V. (1995), Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 559, 560 and 778
  • Климов, Г. А. (1981), “Несколько картвельских индоевропеизмов [Several Kartvelian Indo-Europeanisms]”, in Этимология‎[1] (in Russian), number 1979, Moscow: Nauka, page 170 of 167–173
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998), Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 51
  • Fähnrich, Heinz; Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000), Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 198
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007), Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 159
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