ელგუჯა

Georgian

Etymology

From a Turkic compound name meaning "people power", with the constituents ultimately going back to Proto-Turkic *ēl and *kǖč.

Proper noun

ელგუჯა • (elguǯa)

1. a male given name, Elguja

Derived terms

• ელგუჯაური (elguǯauri)
• ელგუჯაისძე (elguǯaisʒe)

 

References

• Ǯikia, Mariḳa (1973) “Turkuli c̣armomavlobis antroṗonimebi kartulši [Turkic origin personal names in Georgian]”, in Aɣmosavluri pilologia [Philologia Orientalis] (in Georgian), volume 3, also translated into Turkish and misattributed to a certain "Marine Janashia", Tbilisi: Academy Press, pages 214–215, 217a
• Ǯikia, Mariḳa (2008) Cisana Abulaʒe, editor, Turkizmebi kartvelur antroṗonimiaši [Turkisms in Georgian anthroponymy]‎^[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Siṭq̇va, →ISBN, page 36
• Ɣlonṭi, Aleksandre (1986) “ელგუჯა”, in Kartveluri saḳutari saxelebi: Antroṗonimta leksiḳoni [Dictionary of Kartvelian Anthroponyms]‎^[2] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Sabč̣ota Sakartvelo, page 117b