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Mingrelian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From *კვილ-ა (*ḳvil-a), from Proto-Kartvelian *ḳwil-. Cognate with Laz კული (ǩuli, “chair”), Svan კუ̂ილ (ḳûil, “block of wood, tree stump; stool”), and possibly dialectal Georgian კვილო (ḳvilo, “small block of wood, tree stump”).
According to Klimov, from a Northeast Caucasian source. Compare Tsez къуӏри (q’uʿri, “bench”), Hinukh къуре (q’ure), Dargwa уркьули (urq̇uli, “board”), for which Starostin-Nikolayev reconstructs Proto-Northeast Caucasian *q̇wǝ̆lʔă.
Noun
კველა • (ḳvela) (plural კველეფი)
- stool, seat
Descendants
- → Georgian: კველა (ḳvela, “stool”)
References
- ^ Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, pages 134-135
- ^ Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 257
- ^ Klimov, G. A. (1970) “О некоторых словарных общностях картвельских и нахско-дагестанских языков [On some common vocabulary in Kartvelian and Nakh-Daghestanian languages]”, in Этимология, Moscow: Nauka, page 353 of 349–355
- ^ Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*q̇wǝ̆lʔă”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
Further reading
- Kajaia, Otar (2005) “კველა”, in Megrul-kartuli leksiḳoni [Mingrelian–Georgian Dictionary], online version prepared by Joost Gippert, Frankfurt am Main, published 2001–2004, page 690