Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/deɣ-

This Proto-Kartvelian entry contains reconstructed words 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

Alternative reconstructions

*dɣe-

Etymology

Possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-, *dʰegʰ- (“to burn”).(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Root

*deɣ-

day (interval from morning to night, or interval of time in which the earth rotates once around its axis)

Descendants

Georgian-Zan:
- Laz: დღა (dɣa)
- Mingrelian: დღა (dɣa)
- Old Georgian: დღჱ (dɣē)
  - Georgian: დღე (dɣe)
Svan: ლადეღ (ladeɣ)

References

penrixi (Fähnrich), hainc; sarǯvelaʒe, zurab (2000) kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 171
Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 43
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 131

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