ორბი
Georgian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Georgian ორბი (orbi, “eagle”).
Noun edit
Descendants edit
- → Mingrelian: ობრი (obri, “vulture”)
See also edit
Old Georgian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Kartvelian *orb- (“eagle”) and cognate with Svan უ̂ერბ (ûerb, “eagle”).[1][2][3]
This native word for "eagle" later shifted its meaning to "vulture", being displaced in the first sense by the Armenism არწივი (arc̣ivi).[4][5]
Noun edit
ორბი • (orbi)
Descendants edit
- Georgian: ორბი (orbi, “vulture”)
- → Mingrelian: ობრი (obri, “vulture”)
- → Proto-Abkhaz-Abaza: *wárba (“kite, eagle”)
References edit
- ^ Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 150
- ^ Holst, Jan Henrik (2014) Sanische historische Lautlehre (in German), Aachen: Shaker Verlag, →ISBN, pages 63–64
- ^ Fähnrich, Heinz (2016) Die Kartwelier: Grundsprache, Kultur, Lebensraum (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, pages 109, 297
- ^ Klimov, G. A. (1993) “Еще одно свидетельство пребывания арийцев в Передней Азии [New evidence on the residence of the Aryans in Asia Minor]”, in Вопросы языкознания[1] (in Russian), number 4, page 35, footnote 4 of 29–37
- ^ Rayfield, Donald (1996) “Georgian ornithonyms, with Armenian and Caucasian parallels”, in Annual of Armenian linguistics[2], volume 17, page 4 of 1–10
Further reading edit
- Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “ორბი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)][3] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 333