წუერი

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *c̣wer-. Cognate with Mingrelian წვანდი (c̣vandi), წვანჯი (c̣vanǯi).

Has been linked with Old Armenian ծայր (cayr), Armenian ծեր (cer, “end, extremity”), Ačaṙean considering the Georgian to be borrowed from Armenian, and J̌ahukyan 1987 arguing that Armenian and Kartvelian may have been borrowed from a third source, perhaps an unidentified Urartian term. However, in 2010 J̌ahukyan considers the similarity accidental.

Starostin, disagreeing with various Northwest Caucasian comparisons proposed by Klimov, compares with Proto-Northeast Caucasian *ć̣ħwǝ̄rǝ (“hair”).

წუერი • (c̣ueri)

1. beard
2. top, point

• Georgian: წვერი (c̣veri)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “ծայր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 443a
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 598
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “ծայր”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 359a
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 623
• Starostin, S. A. (2005), “*c̣wer-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages