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Etymology
Related to Mingrelian გერი (geri) and Old Georgian მგელი (mgeli). According to Klimov's earlier work, from Proto-Georgian-Zan *mgel- (“wolf”), he however remarks that in Mingrelian-Laz *მგარ- (*mgar-) is expected.[1] In Klimov's more recent works, he no longer reconstructs Proto-Georgian-Zan. If that's correct, then this word should be treated as a borrowing from Old Georgian მგელი (mgeli) (itself possibly from Armenian, for which compare Old Armenian գայլ (gayl)[2]).
Noun
მგერი • (mgeri) (plural მგერეფე)
- wolf
References
- ^ Klimov, G. A. (1964) “*mgel-”, in Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 130
- ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գայլ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 512–513
Further reading
- Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 208
- Marr, N. (1910) “მგერი”, 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