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Proto-Georgian-Zan
Alternative reconstructions
Etymology
From *lʿi- + Proto-Kartvelian *zm- (“to dream”) + *-ar.
Noun
*lʿi-zm-ar- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)
- dream (imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping)
Descendants
- Old Georgian: სიზმარი (sizmari)
- Zan:
References
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*(s)i-zmar-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 177
- Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) “*lʿizmar-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, pages 215–216
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) “*lʿizmar-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 175