Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/c̣₁ebar-

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

Likely from *c̣₁eb- (“to glue”).

Noun

*c̣₁eb-ar-

1. a kind of weed (clarification of this definition is needed)

Descendants

• Georgian: წებარი (c̣ebari, “rough corn bedstraw (Galium tricornutum')”) — Guria
• Zan:
  • ⇒ Laz: ჭაფურია (ç̌apuria, “sugar-sweet”)
  • ⇒ Mingrelian: ჭაფურია (č̣apuria, “a kind of sweet mountain grass; glutinous, sticky from sweetness; sugar-sweet; sugar”)
    • → Svan: ჭაფუ̈რ (č̣apür, “goatsbeard (Tragopogon); the best kind of mountain grass”), ჭაფო̈რ (č̣apör), ჭაფორ (č̣apor), ⇒ ჭაფხუ̂ირ (č̣apxûir)

References

• Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, pages 372–373
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 647
• Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 879