Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/sir-

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

Noun

*sir-

bird

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Old Georgian: სირი (siri, “bird”)
  - Georgian: სირი (siri)
- Zan:
  - ⇒ Mingrelian: სინდი (sindi, “duck”), სინჯი (sinǯi), წყარისინდი (c̣q̇arisindi, “wild duck”), წყარისინჯი (c̣q̇arisinǯi)
    - → Svan: წყა̈რშინდ (c̣q̇äršind, “duck”), წყა̈სინჯ (c̣q̇äsinǯ), წყარშჷნდ (c̣q̇aršənd)
⇒ Svan: მჷსირ (məsir, “black grouse”)

References

Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 166
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 403–404
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 367

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