Georgian

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Etymology

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From Old Georgian ალაგი (alagi, trail, road, way).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /alaɡi/, [aɫaɡi]
  • Hyphenation: ალა‧გი

Noun

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ალაგი (alagi) (plural ალაგები)

  1. place
  2. service, job

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Old Georgian

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Etymology

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According to Androniḳašvili, from an Iranian source, compare Middle Persian 𐫀𐫀𐫡𐫃 (ʾʾrg /⁠ārag⁠/, land, side, direction), [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlk' /⁠ālag⁠/),[1] from Proto-Iranian *Hárdaxš (side). Compare also Old Armenian աղագ (ałag), եղագ (ełag), which according to Ačaṙean, is the source of the Georgian word.[2] Klimov agrees with the Armenian origin of the word.[3]

Note also Kabardian лъагъуэ (lˢağʷɛ), Adyghe лъагъо (lˢağʷo).

Noun

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ალაგი (alagi)

  1. trail, road, way

Usage notes

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In translations, corresponds to Old Armenian շաւիղ (šawił), ճանապարհ (čanaparh), and its Armenian cognate, Old Armenian աղագ (ałag).

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References

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  1. ^ Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1966) Narḳvevebi iranul-kartuli enobrivi urtiertobidan I [Studies in Iranian–Georgian Linguistic Contacts I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, pages 278-279
  2. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “աղագ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 117b
  3. ^ Климов, Г. А. (1994) “О дагестанских арменизмах [On Daghestanian Armenisms]”, in Этимология[1], numbers 1991–1993, Moscow, page 164 of 164–165

Further reading

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  • Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “ალაგი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎[2] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 4b
  • Abulaʒe, Ilia (2014) “ალაგი”, in Ʒvelkartuli-ʒvelsomxuri doḳumenṭirebuli leksiḳoni [Old Georgian – Old Armenian Documentary Dictionary], Tbilisi: National Centre of Manuscripts, →ISBN, page 27b
  • Gamkrelidze, Thomas V., Mačavariani, Givi I. (1982) Winfried Boeder, transl., Sonantensystem und Ablaut in den Kartwelsprachen: Eine Typologie der Struktur des Gemeinkartwelischen (Ars Linguistica; 10) (in German), Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, page 126
  • Климов, Г. А. (1994) Древнейшие индоевропеизмы картвельских языков [The Oldest Indo-Europeanisms in Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Nasledie, →ISBN, pages 55–57
  • Vogt, Hans (1968) “Étymologie géorgienne”, in J. C. Heesterman, G. H. Schokker, V. I. Subramoniam, editors, Pratidānam. Indian, Iranian and Indo-European Studies Presented to Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper on His Sixtieth Birthday (Janua Linguarum. Studia Memoriae Nicolai Van Wijk Dedicata. Series Maior; 34) (in French), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, pages 105–106