Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/šew-

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

*šew- ~ *šw-

to give birth

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Old Georgian: შვა (šva), შობა (šoba, “birth”)
  - Georgian: შვა (šva), შობა (šoba, “birth”), ნაშობი (našobi)
- Zan:
  - Laz: ო-სკ-უ, დო-სქ-უ, ო-სქ-უ, ო-მსქ-უ (o-sǩ-u, do-sk-u, o-sk-u, o-msk-u, “to lay egg”)
  - Mingrelian: სქუალა (skuala, “to lay eggs”)

Derived terms

⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *šw-il- (“born, child”) (see there for further descendants)
⇒ Proto-Kartvelian: *m-šw-e- (“child”) (see there for further descendants)

References

Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 248
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 525
Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 548