Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/gza-

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.

From Proto-Kartvelian *gz- +‎ *-a.

*gza-

1. road, path, way

• Old Georgian: გზაჲ (gzay)
  • Georgian: გზა (gza)
• Zan:
  • Laz: გზა (gza)
  • Mingrelian: ზა (za)

• ⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *lʿa-gz-al- (“victual, provision”, literally “(victual) for the road”)
  • Old Georgian: საგზალი (sagzali)
  • Zan:
    • Mingrelian: ორზოლი (orzoli) (← *ოგზოლი (*ogzoli))

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*gza-, *(s)a-gz-al-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 30, 173–174
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, pages 144–145
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 106–107
• Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, pages 104–105
• Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, pages 81-82