Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/c̣₁eb-

This Proto-Georgian-Zan 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.

*c̣₁eb-

1. to glue

• ⇒ Old Georgian: დაწებვა (dac̣ebva), წებავს (c̣ebavs)
• Zan:
  • ⇒ Laz: ო-ჭაბ-უ (o-ç̌ab-u)
  • ⇒ Mingrelian: ჭაბუა (č̣abua)

• ⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *c̣₁eb-o- (“glue”)
  • Old Georgian: წებო (c̣ebo)
    • Georgian: წებო (c̣ebo)
    • → Old Armenian: ծեփ (cepʻ)
  • Zan:
    • Laz: ჭაბუ (ç̌abu, “glue; European mistletoe (Viscum album)”)
    • Mingrelian: ჭაბუ (č̣abu)
• ⇒? Proto-Georgian-Zan: *c̣₁eb-ar- (“a kind of grass”)
  • Georgian: წებარი (c̣ebari, “rough corn bedstraw (Galium tricornutum')”) — Guria
  • Zan:
    • ⇒ Laz: ჭაფურია (ç̌apuria, “sugar-sweet”)
    • ⇒ Mingrelian: ჭაფურია (č̣apuria, “a kind of sweet mountain grass; glutinous, sticky from sweetness; sugar-sweet; sugar”)
      • → Svan: ჭაფუ̈რ (č̣apür, “goatsbeard (Tragopogon); the best kind of mountain grass”), ჭაფო̈რ (č̣apör), ჭაფორ (č̣apor), ⇒ ჭაფხუ̂ირ (č̣apxûir)

• Č̣araia, Ṗeṭre (1895) “Megruli dialekṭis natesaobrivi damoḳidebuleba kartultan [The genetic relation of the Mingrelian dialect to Georgian]”, in Moambe‎ (in Georgian), number 12, Tbilisi, page 110
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 308, considered the stem to be deverbal
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 662
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 646–647