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This Alanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.
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Alanic
Etymology
Borrowed from Proto-Permic *kärtim (“lease, rent”)
Noun
*gærtam ?
- bribe
Descendants
- Ossetian:
- Digor Ossetian: гӕртан (gærtan)
- Iron Ossetian: гӕртам (gærtam)
- → Old Georgian: ქრთამი (krtami)
- Georgian: ქრთამი (krtami)
- → Armenian: քրթամ (kʻrtʻam) — Tbilisi
- → Bats: ქართამ (kartam), ქრთამ (krtam)
- → Mingrelian: ქრთამი (krtami), რთამი (rtami)
Further reading
- Lytkin, V. I., Gulyaev, E. S., editors (1970), “кӧртым”, in Краткий этимологический словарь коми языка [Brief Etymological Dictionary of the Komi Language][1] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka