Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/tel-

*tel-

1. to trample, to tighten

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • Old Georgian: თელ- (tel-)
    • Georgian: თელავს (telavs, “to trample; to felt”)
  • Zan:
    • Laz: ნთალუფს (ntalups, “to press, to crush”)
    • Mingrelian: თალუას (taluas, “to trample”)
    • → Old Armenian: թաղ (tʻał)
• Svan: ლი-თელ (li-tel, “touch”), ლი-თლ-ე (li-tl-e, “to tighten, trample”)

• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 191–192
• Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 92
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 68
• Ḳarṭozia, Guram (2005) Tamaz Gamq̇reliʒe, editor, Lazuri ena da misi adgili kartvelur enata sisṭemaši [Laz language and its place in Kartvelian language system] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Neḳeri, →ISBN, page 198