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Similar facts are rarely attested in Archaic georgian:gardamoĥdes
mğvdelman ağsavalsa saķurtħevelisasa; madlman šenman šemeċios; mamaman
matman ksenepore ċarvida... (A. Shanidze, Iv. Imnaishvili, Z. Sarjveladze,
A. Kiziria).
The discussed syntactical phenomenon shares "the common basis"
(V. Topuria, 1954, p. 455).
Structure of interrogative sentence. The construction (gnebavsa?)
involving the particle -a which is typical to Old Georgian is more or less
preserved in Kartvelian dialects.
The archaic particle -a is lost in modern literary language, though
it is preserved in dialects: Khevsurian, Pshavian, Mtiulian, Tushian, Her,
Rachan, Megrelian, Svan, etc. It is rarely preserved in Imerkhevian, Livanan,
Taoan, for instance:
Imerkhevian: inegols šigan ħara? akevrobas cnobilobsa? (Sh. Putk aradze,
1993, p. 11); Livanan: ţanze rasa vicvamta? (Sh. Putkaradze, 1993, p.
18)... Svan: anğria? "is s/he coming?"; ašid ħaria? "Are you alive?" (A. Kiziria,
1982, p. 65).
The Megrelian -o is phonetically correspnondent to the particle -
a 314
: tena va(g)ičkuno? "don’t you know this?", tħirs ĉķunko? "are you eating
hazel nut?"
1.2.5. Lexis
The major part of lexical fund of the Kartvelian idioms is common
Kartvelian; for instance, the large part of lexis of the Megrelian dialect
consists of common Kartvelian words (identical to the forms of literary
Georgian, or phonetically altered variants). The share of specific
dialectal lexical units is rather small.
The number of identical forms is tremendous, for instance: adre,
dabadeba, didi, dro, ezo, zğva, ķari, ķiseri, ķvali, mdidari, ċare, m
mħare, sċori, ţvini, koneba, ğaribi, ğone, šara, šeĵena, šiši, šecodeba,
šeċuħeba, šori, ca, cħeni, ĵala, ĵğveni, ċami, ċamali, ħeloba, ċadili, ċesi,
ċirva, ċqnari, ĉiri, ĉķua, ħani, ħareba... The cited words originate from
common Kartvelian and represent the oldest lexical fund. The above
314 The particle -i has the same function in Chan: si va ganjieni? “Are you not sleepy?”;
ħaţije moħtui? “Has Hatice come?” (cf.: Apkhazian particle -i).
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