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Proto-Georgian-Zan
Etymology
*za- (“year, season”) + *mt-ar- (“to be cold”)
Noun
*za-mt-ar-
- winter
Descendants
- Old Georgian: ზამთარი (zamtari)
- Zan:
References
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 56
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 166