მერგჲა
Laz edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From მეროგჲა ← *მეროდჲა (merogya ← *merodya), from Ancient Greek μυρωδία (murōdía). For დჲ → გჲ, ჯ (dy → gy, c), compare გჲარი (gyari).[1]
Noun edit
მერგჲა • (mergya) (plural მერგჲაფე, Latin spelling mergya) (Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa, Chkhala)
References edit
- ^ Labaʒe, Mixeil (2008) “Lazuri ḳiloebis xmovanta sisṭema [Vowel system of Laz dialects]”, in Kartveluri memḳvidreoba (in Georgian), volume XII, Kutaisi, page 173 of 166–174
Further reading edit
- Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 374
- Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “mergya”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı[1] (in Turkish)
- Marr, N. (1910) “მეროგჲა”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 167a
- Tandilava, Ali (2013) “მეროგჲა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary][2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi