აღვსებაჲ

Old Georgian edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Proto-Kartvelian *wes₁- (to fill, be filled).[1][2]

Verbal noun edit

აღვსებაჲ (aɣvsebay)

  1. verbal noun of აღავსებს (aɣavsebs)

Noun edit

აღვსებაჲ (aɣvsebay)

  1. filling up; fulfilling; (year etc․) passing
  2. (Christianity) resurrection; Easter

Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 52―53
  2. ^ Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 161―162

Further reading edit

  • Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “აღვსება”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 13b
  • Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “აღვსებაჲ”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 46a
  • Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “აღვსება”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary, London: Garnett Press