Georgian

Verb

ხეთქა • ‎(xetka)

1. Third-person singular aorist indicative of ხეთქავს ‎(xetkavs)

Derived terms

• დახეთქება ‎(daxetkeba)
• მიხეთქება ‎(mixetkeba)
• წახეთქება ‎(c̣axetkeba)
• გახეთქა ‎(gaxetka)
• მიმოხეთქება ‎(mimoxetkeba)

Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *xetk-, *xtk- ‎(“to tear, break; crack, burst”).^[1][2][3]

Ačaṙean derives from Old Armenian խեթկեմ ‎(xetʿkem), խեթեմ ‎(xetʿem).^[4] On the other hand, according to Vogt (apud Klimov) the direction of the borrowing is the opposite.^[1]

Verb

ხეთქა • ‎(xetka)

1. [He/she/it] cracked, teared, broke, burst

Descendants

• Old Armenian: խեթկեմ ‎(xetʿkem) (possibly)
• Georgian: ხეთქა ‎(xetka)

References

1. 1 2 Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 326
2. ↑ Klimov, G. A. (1964) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kartvelʹskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 260
3. ↑ Starostin, S. A. (2005), “*xetk- / xtk-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages
4. ↑ Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “խեթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 355a