ნაჴშირი

Old Georgian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *na-qšir- (coal), a past-participle lexeme formed by prefixing the verb stem *šwer-, *šwr- (to put out, extinguish), whence also შრობა (šroba), გაშრობა (gašroba).[1]

Fähnrich reconstructs Proto-Georgian-Zan *naqš-, thus considering the initial *ნა (*na) to be part of the root. He derives Mingrelian and Laz cognates from the later Proto-Georgian-Zan *noxšk- archetype and notes the development of (v) in Mingrelian ნოშქვერი (noškveri).[2][3]

On the other hand, Dzidziguri derives from earlier *ნაშხირი (*našxiri), developed through the reduction of first (i) in *ნაშიხირი (*našixiri), which in turn was formed by affixation of the Svan root *შიხ- (*šix-, combustion).[4] This is discarded by Klimov.

Noun edit

ნაჴშირი (naqširi)

  1. coal

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

  • Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “ნაჴშირი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎[2] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 326

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 139
  2. ^ Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 354
  3. ^ Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 316
  4. ^ Ʒiʒiguri, Šota (1988) Siṭq̇vis cxovreba [The life of the word]‎[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Merani, page 12