მორიელი

Georgian

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Etymology

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From Middle Georgian მორიელი (morieli, poisonous spider, tarantula (?)). According to G. Asatur (a personal communication to Ačaṙyan), borrowed from Middle Armenian մոր (mor), մորմ (morm, a kind of poisonous spider) possibly with suffix -იელი (-ieli, type of, from the family of).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /morieli/, [moɾieli]
  • Hyphenation: მო‧რი‧ე‧ლი

Noun

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მორიელი (morieli) (plural მორიელები)

  1. scorpion
  2. (astronomy) Scorpio

Inflection

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Synonyms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Čikobava, Arnold et al., editors (1950–1964), “მორიელი”, in Kartuli enis ganmarṭebiti leksiḳoni [Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian language] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Academy Press
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մոր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 347b
  • Klimov, G. A., Xalilov, M. Š. (2003) Словарь кавказских языков. Сопоставление основной лексики [Dictionary of Caucasian Languages. A comparison of the Basic Vocabulary] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, →ISBN, page 245
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 479