ფაკელი

Old Georgian edit

Etymology edit

From Old Armenian փակեղ (pʻakeł), the later regular development of փակեղն (pʻakełn), from Byzantine Greek φακεόλεον (phakeóleon).

Noun edit

ფაკელი (paḳeli)

  1. phelonion
  2. headscarf

Descendants edit

  • Middle Georgian: ფაკელი (paḳeli) (obsolete)
  • Svan: ლჷფკე̄ლ (ləpḳēl, well-born lady, literally headscarfed)

Further reading edit

  • Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “ფაკელი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 442a
  • Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “ფაკელი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1250a
  • Čuxua, Merab (2018) “Axali masalebi kartuli enis isṭoriul-eṭimologiuri leksiḳonisatvis [New Materials for the Georgian Historical-Etymological Dictionary]”, in Eṭimologiuri ʒiebani (in Georgian), volume XV, Tbilisi, page 96 of 79–113, erroneously links with Laz ჶორკა (forǩa, dress)