Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ḳec₁-

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.

*ḳec₁- : *ḳic₁- : *ḳc₁-

1. to put together, fold, collect

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • ⇒ Old Georgian: კეცავს (ḳecavs), შეკიცვაჲ (šeḳicvay), კეცა (ḳeca), ორკეცი (orḳeci)
    • Georgian: კეცავს (ḳecavs)
  • Zan:
    • ⇒ Mingrelian: კიჩუა (ḳičua), კჷჩუა (ḳəčua)
• ⇒ Svan: იკჩე (iḳče), იკიჩი (iḳiči)

Unsorted borrowings

• → Old Armenian: կից- (kicʻ-)

• Č̣araia, Ṗeṭre (1895) “Megruli dialekṭis natesaobrivi damoḳidebuleba kartultan [The genetic relation of the Mingrelian dialect to Georgian]”, in Moambe‎ (in Georgian), number 12, Tbilisi, page 110
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 271
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 231
• Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 108
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 90
• Šerozia, Revaz (2020) “Svanuri da megrul–lazuri meṭq̇velebebis saerto ʒir-puʒeta saḳitxisatvis [On the issue of common roots and stems of Svan and Megrelian–Laz]”, in Kartveluri memḳvidreoba (in Georgian), volume XXIV, Kutaisi, pages 266–268