გერმა

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Etymology

According to Aleksiva from *გირმა < *დირმა < *დრიმა (*girma < *dirma < *drima), from Ancient Greek δρυμά (drumá), neutral collective to δρυμός (drumós, “forest”).

Noun

გერმა • (germa) (Latin spelling germa) (Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa–Batumi)

  1. mountain
    Synonym: დაღი (daği)
    მაღალა გერმაფეშენ გელამთე გამიწკედაში ზუღა იძირენ
    mağala germapeşen gelamte gamiǯǩedaşi zuğa iżiren
    Looking downhill from high mountains, the sea is visible

Derived terms

  • გერმაკოჩი (germaǩoçi, “a mythological figure who lives in the forests, whose whole body is covered with hair, and who imitates everything that man does, a kind of forest man”)

Descendants

References

  • Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “germa”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 296
  • Aleksiva, Irfan Çağatay (2019) “Germakoçi'nin 'germa'sının Etimolojisi Hakkında”, in Lazoba: İrfan Çağatay Aleksiva'nin Lazlar ve Lazca üzerine fikir yazıları‎ (in Turkish), retrieved 2022-08-07
  • Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “germa”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎ (in Turkish)
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013) “გერმა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎, online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi
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