Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/mč̣edel-

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.

Proto-Kartvelian

Etymology

*č̣ed- +‎ *m- -el

Noun

*m-č̣ed-el-

1. smith, blacksmith

Descendants

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • Old Georgian: მჭედელი (mč̣edeli)
    • Georgian: მჭედელი (mč̣edeli) (see there for further descendants)
  • Zan:
    • Laz: მჭკადუ (mç̌ǩadu)
    • Mingrelian: ჭკადუ (č̣ḳadu)
• Svan: მჷშკიდ (məšḳid)

References

• 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 112
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 133, 320
• Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, pages 682–683
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 666–667

Further reading

• Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) “*m- -el”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, pages 312–313
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) “*m- -el”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 275