Old Georgian

Alternative forms

• ფირტუ ‎(pirṭu)

Noun

ფირტჳ • ‎(pirṭwi)

1. lung

Descendants

• Georgian: ფილტვი ‎(pilṭvi), ფირტვი ‎(pirṭvi)
  • → Bezhta: пиртӀи ‎(pirṭi), пийтӀи ‎(pijṭi)
  • → Hunzib: пыртӏи ‎(pɨrṭi), [script needed] ‎(pijṭi)

References

• penrixi (Fähnrich), hainc; sarǯvelaʒe, zurab (2000) kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 467
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 436
• Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 201
• Klimov, G. A. (1964) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kartvelʹskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 189
• Klimov, G. A.; Xalilov, M. Š. (2003) Slovarʹ kavkazskix jazykov. Sopostavlenije osnovnoj leksiki [Dictionary of Caucasian Languages. A comparison of the Basic Vocabulary] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, ISBN 5-02-018283-4, page 83
• Nikolayev, S. L.; Starostin, S. A. (1994), “*pHVrṭwV”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers, page 871
• Starostin, S. A. (2005), “*pir(ś)ṭw-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages
• abulaʒe, ilia (1973), “ფირტჳ”, in ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 445