ცხელა
Georgian
editEtymology
editFrom ცხელი (cxeli, “hot”) with the verb არს (ars, “to be”). The verb soon turned impersonal and got new screeve forms (ცხელოდა (cxeloda), ცხელოდეს (cxelodes)).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editცხელა • (cxela) (third-person singular present indicative)
- (impersonal) to be hot (weather, outside...)
- დღეს ძაან ცხელა, ვიწვი.
- dɣes ʒaan cxela, vic̣vi.
- Today it's really hot, I'm burning.
- (intransitive) Nonstandard spelling of სცხელა (scxela).
- ლელას ცხელა.
- lelas cxela.
- Lela's (feeling) hot.
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editFurther reading
edit- Šaniʒe, Aḳaḳi (1980) Kartuli enis gramaṭiḳis sapuʒvlebi [Basics of Georgian Grammar] (Txzulebani tormeṭ ṭomad; 3) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, § 565, pages 528-530