Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/mḳle-
Proto-Georgian-Zan
Etymology
*ḳl- + *m- -e, from Proto-Kartvelian *ḳel- : *ḳl- (“to lack, to be short of something”).
Adjective
*m-ḳl-e-
Descendants
- Old Georgian: მოკლჱ (moḳlē, “short”)
- Georgian: მოკლე (moḳle), მკლე (mḳle) — Khevsureti
- Zan:
- Laz: მკულე (mǩule, “short”)
- ⇒ Mingrelian: ხე-კულე (xe-ḳule, “deprived of hand(s)”)
References
- Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, pages 232–233
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 123