Laz edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Kartvelian verbal roots *q̣w(l)ep-, *q̣w(l)ip-, *q̣w(l)p- (to scratch off; to strip off; to fade). Cognate with Georgian ყვლეფა (q̇vlepa).

Ačaṙean derives from Armenian. See in ყვლეფა (q̇vlepa)

Noun edit

ღლეპა (ḡlepa)

  1. green shell of a walnut

References edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973) “կեղեւ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 569a
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 242
  • 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 536
  • Marr, N. (1910) “ღლეპა”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press