ჩირთ

Svan

Etymology

Borrowed from Iron Ossetian цырт (cyrt).

Noun

ჩირთ • (čirt) (plural ჩირთა̈ლ)

1. cairn, heap of stones

   Synonyms: ბაჩრე გოჯ (bačre goǯ), ღო̄ნა (ɣōna)

Further reading

• Abajev, V. I. (1949) Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I]‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 298
• Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1966) Narḳvevebi iranul-kartuli enobrivi urtiertobidan I [Studies in Iranian–Georgian Linguistic Contacts I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, page 55
• Климов, Г. А. (1963) “О лексике осетинского происхождения в сванском языке [About the vocabulary of Ossetian origin in Svan]”, in Этимология‎^[2] (in Russian), number 1963, Moscow, page 184 of 180–186
• Topuria, Varlam, Kaldani, Maksime (1994) “ჩირთ”, in Svanuri leksiḳoni [Svan Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Merani-3 Publishing, page 1862