Mingrelian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Kartvelian *r-, *ar- (to be). See Old Armenian երինջ (erinǰ), a Zan borrowing, for more.

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: ო‧რი‧ჯი

Noun edit

ორიჯი (oriǯi)

  1. cattle

Further reading edit

  • Kipšidze, Iosif (1914) “ორიჯი”, in Грамматика мингрельского (иверского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 7)‎[1] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 294b