Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/s₁wel-

Probably from *s₁ow- (“to be wet”) +‎ *-el, in which case this root is the same as Proto-Georgian-Zan *s₁ow-el- (“wet, damp, soaked”).

*s₁wel-

1. whey

   Synonym: *c̣ak-

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • Old Georgian: სუელი (sueli)
    • Georgian: სველი (sveli), სუ̂ელი (sûeli); სო̈ლი (söli); სო̈ლ (söl); სელი (seli), სეილი (seili)
• Svan: შუ̂ელ (šûel)

• Schmidt, Karl Horst (1962) Studien zur Rekonstruktion des Lautstandes der südkaukasischen Grundsprache (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; XXXIV, 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner GmbH, page 131
• Gamq̇reliʒe, Tamaz (1959) Giorgi C̣ereteli, editor, Sibilanṭta šesaṭq̇visobani da kartvelur enata uʒvelesi sṭrukṭuris zogi saḳitxi [Sibilant correspondences and some problems of the oldest structure of the Kartvelian languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis gamomcemloba, page 17–18 of 1–86
• Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, pages 418–419
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 382

*s₁wel-

1. lizard

   Synonym: *m-xul-

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • ⇒ Old Georgian: მსუენი (msueni)
    • Georgian: მსუენი (msueni), ფსვენი (psveni), ⇒ სვენა (svena), (contaminated with ხვლიკი (xvliḳi)) მსვლიკი (msvliḳi), სლიკვი (sliḳvi), ფსვლიკი (psvliḳi), სვლიკი (svliḳi), ფსვნიკი (psvniḳi), ფსლიკვი (psliḳvi), ფსლიქი (psliki)
  • Zan:
    • ⇒ Mingrelian: შველა (švela, “grass snake”)
    • → Georgian: შველა (švela) (obsolete), ⇒ (Chveneburi) მეშველაჲ (mešvelay)
• Svan: შუ̂ა̈ლ (šûäl)

• Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, page 313
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 382

• Schmidt, Karl Horst (1962) Studien zur Rekonstruktion des Lautstandes der südkaukasischen Grundsprache (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; XXXIV, 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner GmbH, page 125, conflates this root with Proto-Kartvelian *m-xul-