Proto-Kartvelian

Then when I survey the PIE words that are purportedly shared with Proto-Kartvelian, I notice that they appear to be loaned most recently within the Late IE period.

Archive 2008-07-01 2008

Ad 1 Firstly, there seems to be a phonotactical constraint in Proto-Kartvelian that made the **-xt- cluster impossible.

A possible relationship between 'four' and 'eight' in PIE 2008

The mess with early gemination that I've been previously speaking about has oddly enough led me down a new quest: Proto-Kartvelian PK loans.

Archive 2008-07-01 2008

The mess with early gemination that I've been previously speaking about has oddly enough led me down a new quest: Proto-Kartvelian PK loans.

Update of my "Diachrony of Pre-IE" document 2008

Then when I survey the PIE words that are purportedly shared with Proto-Kartvelian, I notice that they appear to be loaned most recently within the Late IE period.

Update of my "Diachrony of Pre-IE" document 2008

As an interesting aside, one may appreciate Klimov's Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages for a run-down on Proto-Kartvelian šwid- "seven" which is derived from a Semitic masculine, non-mimated form of the numeral, *sabʕatu Akk. šibit.

"Mid Indo-European", Semitic and Neolithic numerals 2007

As an interesting aside, one may appreciate Klimov's Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages for a run-down on Proto-Kartvelian šwid- "seven" which is derived from a Semitic masculine, non-mimated form of the numeral, *sabʕatu Akk. šibit.

Archive 2007-10-01 2007

Naturally so, since if he had said it was impossible, he'd have egg on his face if a student rose up and confronted him with things like Japanese ichi, ni, san, etc. (from Middle Chinese), English they and are (from Old Norse) or Proto-Kartvelian *šwid- 'seven' (cf.

Searching for an etymology for Germanic *handuz 'hand' 2009

On the other hand, it's always possible that the word is a Kartvelian borrowing anyway from Proto-Kartvelian *m̥k’erd- "breast" and therefore may not have been naturalized with a penultimate accent before Syncope took over.

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Yet it turns out that while it is often associated with PK *m̥-k’erd- "chest", I've never yet come across an accurate explanation as to how Proto-Indo-European PIE either acquired these loans or how they were given to Proto-Kartvelian.

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