Kvashilava, Gia, 2010. On Reading Pictorial Signs of the Phaistos Disk and Related Scripts (2). Rosette (in Georgian and English)

4. On the Reading of Eight-petalled Rosette Sign and
Sematic Parallels of Aea
The correspondence between the Phaistos Disk sign
PHD38 and Proto-Kartvelian-Colchian * [*aəa] is shown
below. Also the readings of two Linear A inscriptions are given.
Proto-Kartvelian-Colchian * [*aəa] PHD38 – aea, eightpetalled
rosette 1 ;
1 . French rosette (< rose + ette); German Rosette; Italian rosetta; Russian
розéтка rosette, and so on.
Common-Indo-European * -/* -; Avestan [ ] the name
of a plant > Armenian [vard]; Georgian [vardi]; Mycenaean Greek
[wo-do-we]: PY Fr 1203 (S1203-Cii), 1204 (S343-H 4), 1207.1 (H 41)
(DMic 2 ); Old Greek (Attic), (Aeolic) > Latin (Etruscan) *
> Latin rosa > Old High German rōsa; Franch rose; German Rose; Czech ;
Polish – rose, and so on (comp.: Gamkrelidze, Ivanov 1984, II, 663); Turkish
gül rose < Middle Persian (Pahlavi) [gul] flower, rose < Old Persian * - >
*warda- > Pahlavi [varta]; Parthian wār flower (comp.: Paul 1998, 169;
Bailey 1930-32, 60, 61); Arabic [wárdun] red rose (Lane 1968, 2935);
Hebrew [vered] rose, and so on. Old Persian * - is supposedly borrowed
into Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian and Georgian.
A rose and lotus were widely spread symbols in Egypt, Europe and Asia. E.g.
in ancient Greek (Géczi 2006, 1-83) a rose was attributed to the Sun-god Hélios
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