Talk:მაკათი

, the origin of the Armenian is unknown. I was hoping to explain it as an ancient Zan borrowing. ma- can be a Zan prefix. Is Chukhua's proposal that bad? The *ḳwet- that he reconstructs can be identical with the Kartvelian root for "to cut" (compare ). I offer a typological parallel: both in Old Armenian and modern Armenian it is said that the  the milk. --Vahag (talk) 22:20, 10 April 2022 (UTC)


 * He also links it with . It's not bad per se, but rather I get a apprehensive feeling about it. Firstly I'd like to compile more, if any exist, examples of being dropped in positions before . Standalone  doesn't seem very productive in Laz. Also which IE root is Klimov talking about? კვარია (talk) 07:16, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * He means the root discussed at . Vahag (talk) 10:29, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Btw, do you have any alts of this word in your dicts?კვარია (talk) 10:58, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I will check, but in the meantime I found at https://lazcasozluk.org/ gamaǩateri, gamaǩatu "to separate", and not just in the sense "to separate whey from curds", but in a general sense. This strengthens the theory that makard is the "separator, cutter" of milk. Vahag (talk) 11:16, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * These are possibly based on, cf. also there o-ǩat-u (to add) კვარია (talk) 11:47, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I added one form from Kojima. Benli has additionally, , but he confesses in the introduction that he is not good at distinguishing aspiration. So they may be spurious. Vahag (talk) 21:42, 11 April 2022 (UTC)