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“კიბილი”, in Čveneburebis kartuli leksiḳoni [Dictionary of Chveneburi Georgian] (in Georgian), Kartuli dialekṭuri ḳorṗusi, 2011–2014
Old Georgian
Etymology
From Proto-Georgian-Zan*ḳb-il-, which is the past-participle form of a very early formation ending in *-il based on the Proto-Georgian-Zan verb stem *ḳb-, which is the common ancestor of words pertaining to the oral cavity and eating such as კბენა(ḳbena, “to bite (anything but food)”) and კბეჩა(ḳbeča, “to bite (implying food)”).
Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 265
Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 87
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 225
Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “კბილი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 194
