Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/čxir-

This Proto-Kartvelian 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 *čxer- ~ *čxir- (“to stick in, ram in”).

*čxir-

1. stick, twig

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • Old Georgian: ჩხირი (čxiri)
    • Georgian: ჩხირი (čxiri)
      • → Armenian: չխիր (čʻxir)
      • → Bats: ჩხირ (čxir)
      • → Mingrelian: ჩხირი (čxiri)
    • → Zan:
      • Laz: ჩხილი (çxili)
      • Mingrelian: ჩხილი (čxili)
  • Zan:
    • Mingrelian: ჩხინჯი (čxinǯi, “thorn; twig, stick; bent branch used for setting up a trap to catch birds”), ჩხინჭი (čxinč̣i)
      • → Abkhaz: ачхьынч (ačxʲənč, “inclined notched stick for hanging a pot over fire”)
    • → Ossetian: цӕджындз (cæǵynʒ, “pillar, column”), цӕгиндзӕ (cæginʒæ)
    • → Karachay-Balkar: чыгъынджи (çığınci, “pillar, column”), чигинджи (çiginci), жигиндзи (jigindzi), зигинджи (ziginci), чыкъынджи (çıqınci)
• Svan: ჩხირ (čxir)

• *c̣ḳir-

• Abajev, V. I. (1958) “cæǵynʒ | cæginʒæ”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 297–298, derives Ossetian from a hypothetical Mingrelian word cognate to Georgian ჩხირი (čxiri), unaware that the Mingrelian word is indeed attested
• Klimov, G. A. (1973) “Dopolnenija k etimologičeskomu slovarju kartvelʹskix jazykov [Additions to the Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages]”, in Etimologija‎ (in Russian), number 1971, Moscow: Nauka, pages 356–367