Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/loḳ-

Etymology
According to most scholars, this root has an onomatopeic origin (Klimov, 1998; Fähnrich, 2007). The phonosemantic nature of the action of licking is visible in a large number of languages across the globe, which have the proto-type *lVp ~ *lVk ~ *lVt for the verb “to lick” and the noun “tongue”:


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 * > 🇨🇬, (formal)
 * → (likely) 🇨🇬
 * > 🇨🇬 (Vedic),  (Classical)
 * > 🇨🇬, (formal)
 * → (likely) 🇨🇬
 * > 🇨🇬, (formal)
 * → (likely) 🇨🇬
 * > 🇨🇬, (formal)
 * → (likely) 🇨🇬
 * > 🇨🇬, (formal)
 * → (likely) 🇨🇬
 * → (likely) 🇨🇬

Root

 * 1) to lick

Descendants

 * ; (possibly)
 * Zan:
 * Zan: