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ქვა

Etymology edit

From Old Georgian ქვაჲ (kvay), from Proto-Kartvelian *kwa-.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kʰva/, [kʰʷa]
  • Hyphenation: ქვა

Noun edit

ქვა (kva) (plural ქვები)

  1. stone

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Laz edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Kartvelian *kwa-.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kʰvɑ/, [kʰfɑ], [kʰwɑ]

Noun edit

ქვა (kva) (plural ქვალეფე, plural ქვაფე, plural კვაეფე, Latin spelling kva)

  1. stone, rock
    • 1960 – 1964, Muhsin Erol (a native of Şenköy born in 1940), Stories recorded by Georges Dumézil in Istanbul The Wizard and His Apprentice:[1]
      ჰე-თი, მუნთხა უნტუ ივეტუ: ჲანი კინჩი ივეტუ, ფუთხუტუ; ჯოღოჲ ივეტუ, ლალუმტუ; ნჯა ივეტუ, ქვა ივეტუ, დუნჲას მუ ჭეშიტი შეჲ ტუ იჲი ივეტუ.
      he-ti, muntxa unťu iveťu: yani ǩinçi iveťu, putxuťu; coğoy iveťu, lalumťu; nca iveťu, kva iveťu, dunyas mu ç̌eşiťi şey ťu iyi iveťu.
      The man in black had the ability to become whatever he wanted, that is to say, he became a bird (and) flew, he became a dog (and) barked, he became a tree, he became a stone, he became all kinds of things in the world.

References edit

  1. ^ Dumézil, Georges (1967) Documents anatoliens sur les langues et les traditions du Caucase IV: Récits lazes en dialecte d'Arhavi (parler de Şenköy)[1] (in French), Paris: Presses universitaires de France, pages 99, 100

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 369 spelled as Kuá
  • Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 847
  • Marr, N. (1910) “კუ̂ა”, 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 199a
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ქვა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi