Re: Slavery and Slave trade in Antiquity II: *xolp-/*kolp-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> Georgij A. Klimov
> Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages
>
> Common Kartvelian *q.el- 'neck':
> Georg. q.el- 'throat, neck of vessel';
> Megr. 'al- 'neck, neck of vessel';
> Laz (q.)al-, 'al-;
> Svan [q.l-] 'neck'.
> In Old Georgian the word meant 'neck' (šeexvia q.elsa missa... '(he) fell on his neck...' Lk. 15.20). In Megrelian the lexeme has been almost completely replaced (cf. its derivative o'aleš- 'collar'). The Svan cor­respondence is preserved in the derivative mə-q.l-a 'neck, throat'.
>

This root is very interesting, for it would explain Gascon and Catalan galet (diminutive) 'spout of a pitcher, jug, etc. from which liquid flows when the vessel is conveniently inclined' as a substrate loanword.

I'd also link it to *kol-s- 'neck' > Latin collum, Germanic *xals-a- 'neck'.

There're other correspondences between Kartvelian and SW European substrate roots and Latin:

Regional Spanish a-barca 'rustical shoe' ~ Kartvelian *berq- 'foot, step'
Spanish garganta 'throat, gorge' ~ Kartvelian *q'arq'ant- 'throat'
Gascon toponym gava 'stream' ~ Kartvelian *qew- 'ravine'
Basque naba 'plain (between mountains)' ~ Kartvelian *neb- 'palm of the hand'

Latin cartila:go 'cartilage' ~ Kartvelian *Grt’il- (*xrt’il-) 'cartilage'
Latin curculio: 'weevil' ~ Kartvelian *k'rk'il- 'moth'
Latin furca 'pitchfork' ~ Kartvelian *gRdz^Ga/*k'rts^xa 'fork, bifurcated twig'
Latin gu:rges 'throat' ~ Kartvelian *q'orq'- 'throat'