აბედი

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Georgian

აბედი

Etymology

Inherited from Old Georgian აბედი (abedi). Further etymology is unknown.

Pronunciation

Noun

აბედი (abedi) (plural აბედები)

  1. tinder, touchwood; amadou
    აბედის სოკოabedis soḳotinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius/ignarius)
  2. canker

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Further reading

  • Bläsing, Uwe (2015) “Georgische Gewächse auf türkischer Erde: Ein Beitrag zur Phytonomie in Nordostanatolien”, in Uwe Bläsing, Victoria Arakelova and Matthias Weinreich, editors, Studies on Iran and the Caucasus: In honour of Garnik Asatrian (in German), Leiden: Brill, →DOI, pages 256–260
  • Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 43, reconstructs Proto-Kartvelian
  • Klimov, G. A. (1985) “Дополнения к этимологическому словарю картвельских языков. II [Additions to the Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages. II]”, in Этимология (in Russian), number 1983, Moscow: Nauka, page 168 of 166–179, discards the aforementioned reconstruction
  • Marr, N. (1918) “Яфетические элементы в языках Армении. X [Japhethic Elements in the Languages of Armenia. X]”, in Известия Российской Академии Наук. VI серия (in Russian), volume 12, number 6, page 339 of 317–348, derives from the root underlying Svan ლი-ბიდ (li-bid), მჷ-ბიდ (mə-bid, combustible), ლი-ბდ-ინ-ე (li-bd-in-e, to set on fire) (see Proto-Kartvelian *bdw-)
  • Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “აბედი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary, London: Garnett Press
  • Starostin, S. A. (2005) “*abed-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages

Mingrelian

Noun

აბედი (abedi)

  1. Alternative form of ობედი (obedi)