Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/wenaq-

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.

Borrowed from an unknown Proto-Indo-European source having derived a *weynag- from Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ō (“wine”).

*wenaq-

1. vine

• Old Georgian: ვენაჴი (venaqi, “vine; vineyard”)
  • Georgian: ვენახი (venaxi, “vineyard”)
    • → Mingrelian: ვერნახი (vernaxi)
  • → Bezhta: венахи (venaxi), венахъи (venaqxi)
  • → Svan: უ̂ენაჴ (ûenaq)
• Zan:
  • Laz: ბინეხი (binexi)
  • Mingrelian: ბინეხი (binexi)

• Melikišvili, Irine (1975) “E > i ṗrocesi zanur dialekṭebši da xmovanta šesaṭq̇visobis erti darɣveva kartvelur enebši [E > i process in Zan dialects and the disturbance of vowel correspondences in the Kartvelian languages]”, in Macne: enisa da liṭeraṭuris seria (in Georgian), number 4, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 122―128

• Gamkrelidze, Th. V., Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 559, 560 and 778
• Климов, Г. А. (1981) “Несколько картвельских индоевропеизмов [Several Kartvelian Indo-Europeanisms]”, in Этимология‎ (in Russian), number 1979, Moscow: Nauka, page 170 of 167–173
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 51
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 198
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 159