Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/mʒ₁ewal-

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.

By surface analysis, *m- -al +‎ **ʒ₁ew-.

*m-ʒ₁ew-al-

1. nest egg (egg placed in a bird's nest)

• Old Georgian: მძევალი (mʒevali)
  • Georgian: მძევალი (mʒevali), რძევალი (rʒevali) — Imereti, Guria, ძევალი (ʒevali) — Imereti, Chveneburi, მზეველი̆ (mzevelĭ) — Tusheti
    • → Svan: ძეუ̂ა̈ლ (ʒeûäl), ძა̈უ̂ა̈ლ (ʒäûäl), ძეუ̂ალ (ʒeûal)
    • → Mingrelian: რძიალი (rʒiali)
• Zan:
  • Mingrelian: ჯალი (ǯali), ჯაალი (ǯaali), რჯალი (rǯali), ჯაი (ǯai) — Martvili–Bandza
    • → Svan: ჯალ (ǯal), ჯა̈ლ (ǯäl), ჯჷლ (ǯəl)

• Kipšidze, Iosif (1914) “ჯალი”, in Грамматика мингрельского (иверского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 7)‎ (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 411
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 130
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 342
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 302