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Laz
Etymology
From Proto-Georgian-Zan *ʒ₁el-.
Pronunciation
Noun
ნჯა • (nca) (plural ჯალეფე, plural ნჯაფე, Latin spelling nca) (Apso, Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa–Batumi)
- tree
- Synonym: აღაჯი (ağaci)
1960 – 1964,
Muhsin Erol (a native of Şenköy born in 1940),
Stories recorded by Georges Dumézil in Istanbul The Wizard and His Apprentice:
[1]- ჰე-თი, მუნთხა უნტუ ივეტუ: ჲანი კინჩი ივეტუ, ფუთხუტუ; ჯოღოჲ ივეტუ, ლალუმტუ; ნჯა ივეტუ, ქვა ივეტუ, დუნჲას მუ ჭეშიტი შეჲ ტუ იჲი ივეტუ.
- he-ti, muntxa unťu iveťu: yani ǩinçi iveťu, putxuťu; coğoy iveťu, lalumťu; nca iveťu, kva iveťu, dunyas mu ç̌eşiťi şey ťu iyi iveťu.
- The man in black had the ability to become whatever he wanted, that is to say, he became a bird (and) flew, he became a dog (and) barked, he became a tree, he became a stone, he became all kinds of things in the world.
- timber, lumber, billet, log
- Synonym: ქერესთე (kereste)
მემეტიქ არ დიდი ნჯა თოკითე ეკითორამს- memeťik ar didi nca toǩite eǩitorams
- Memet is dragging a huge log
Inflection
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References
- ^ Dumézil, Georges (1967) Documents anatoliens sur les langues et les traditions du Caucase IV: Récits lazes en dialecte d'Arhavi (parler de Şenköy) (in French), Paris: Presses universitaires de France, pages 99, 100
Further reading
- Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 239 spelled as Ja
- Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 894
- Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “nca”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı (in Turkish)
- Marr, N. (1910) “ჯა”, 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, page 235a
- Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ნჯა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi