Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/grʒ-

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

Root

*grʒ-

to be long

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- ⇒ Old Georgian: განგრძობაჲ (gangrʒobay, “to continue, prolong”)
  - Georgian: განგრძობა (gangrʒoba)
- Zan:
  - ⇒ Laz: ოგინძანუ (oginżanu, “to lengthen, continue”)
  - ⇒ Mingrelian: გინძარება (ginʒareba, “to lengthen, continue”), გინძორება (ginʒoreba)
⇒ Svan: ლიგძჷნე (ligʒəne, “to stretch, pull”)

Derived terms

⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *grʒ-el- (“long, high”)
- Old Georgian: გრძელი (grʒeli)
  - Georgian: გრძელი (grʒeli)
  - ⇒ Old Georgian: სიგრძჱ (sigrʒē, “length”), სიგრძოჲ (sigrʒoy)
    - Georgian: სიგრძე (sigrʒe)
- Zan:
  - Laz: გუნძე (gunże), გუნზე (gunze); გინძე (ginże); გინზე (ginze)
  - Mingrelian: გინძე (ginʒe), გჷნძე (gənʒe), გირძე (girʒe), გჷძე (gəʒe), გიძე (giʒe)

References

Č̣araia, Ṗeṭre (1895) “Megruli dialekṭis natesaobrivi damoḳidebuleba kartultan [The genetic relation of the Mingrelian dialect to Georgian]”, in Moambe‎ (in Georgian), number 12, Tbilisi, page 113
Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, page 232
Schmidt, Karl Horst (1962) Studien zur Rekonstruktion des Lautstandes der südkaukasischen Grundsprache (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; XXXIV, 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner GmbH, pages 102–103
Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*grʒ-, *grʒ-el-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 33
Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) “*grʒ-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, pages 150–151
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) “*grʒ-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 112–113
Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 784

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