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Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/čwen-

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

Pronoun

*čwen-

  1. we
  2. our

Descendants
  • Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • ⇒ Svan: გუშგუ̂ეჲ (gušgûey, “our (inclusive)”), ნიშგუ̂ეჲ (nišgûey, “our (exclusive)”), ⇒? მიშგუ̂ი (mišgûi, “mine”)

References
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*čwen, *čwen-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 256–257
  • 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 563–564
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 541–542
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2019) “wir, unser”, in Der Erbwortschatz der Kartwelsprachen [The inherited vocabulary of Kartvelian languages] (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, page 223, reconstructs *čwe-

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
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