პილენძი

Old Georgian edit

Borrowed from a Western Iranian language: compare Parthian 𐫛𐫓𐫏𐫗𐫝 (plync /⁠plinǰ⁠/) and see Persian (berenj) for more.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

პილენძი • (ṗilenʒi)

Georgian: სპილენძი (sṗilenʒi)
- → Svan: სპილენძ (sṗilenʒ), სპილენჯ (sṗilenǯ), სპელენჯ (sṗelenǯ) (alternative forms from *სპილენჯ- (*sṗilenǯ-))

^ Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1966) Narḳvevebi iranul-kartuli enobrivi urtiertobidan I [Studies in Iranian–Georgian Linguistic Contacts I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, pages 361—362
^ Fähnrich, Heinz (1994) Grammatik der altgeorgischen Sprache (in German), Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, page 248
^ Blažek, Václav, Schwarz, Michal (1999) The early Indo-Europeans in Central Asia and China: Cultural relations as reflected in language (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft; 13)‎^[1], Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, page 107
^ Rapp, Stephen H. (2014) The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature, Ashgate Publishing, page 163

Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “պղինձ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 89b, derives from Old Armenian պղինձ (płinj, “copper”)
Gippert, Jost (1993) Iranica Armeno-Iberica: Studien zu den iranischen Lehnwörtern im Armenischen und Georgischen (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte; 606. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Iranistik; 26)‎^[2] (in German), volume I, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 123–124
Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 150, together with Mingrelian ლინჯი (linǯi) reconstructs Proto-Georgian-Zan *ṗilenʒ₁- (“copper”) and derives it from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plēnd- (“to shine”), whence Latin splendeo
Климов, Г. А. (1994) Древнейшие индоевропеизмы картвельских языков [The Oldest Indo-Europeanisms in Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Nasledie, →ISBN, pages 130–134