Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/lʿizmar-

This Proto-Georgian-Zan 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-Georgian-Zan

Alternative reconstructions

• *(s)i-zm-ar- (Klimov)

Etymology

From *lʿi- +‎ Proto-Kartvelian *zm- (“to dream”) +‎ *-ar.

Noun

*lʿi-zm-ar- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)

1. dream (imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping)

Descendants

• Old Georgian: სიზმარი (sizmari)
  • Georgian: სიზმარი (sizmari)
    • → Mingrelian: სიზმარი (sizmari), სიზიმარი (sizimari), სიზუმარი (sizumari), სიზჷმარი (sizəmari)
• Zan:
  • Laz: იზმოჯე (izmoce), ეზმოჯე (ezmoce); ეზმოჟე (ezmoje) (← *იზმორ- (*izmor-))

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*(s)i-zmar-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 177
• Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) “*lʿizmar-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, pages 215–216
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) “*lʿizmar-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 175