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Georgian
Etymology
From Old Georgian რვალი (rvali).
- Ačaṙyan derives from earlier *რვარი (*rvari), from Old Armenian արոյր (aroyr).[1]
- According to Androniḳašvili, an Armenian borrowing would result in *არუელი, *აროელი (*arueli, *aroeli) (< *აროერი (*aroeri); for the sense of development, compare კაპოეტი (ḳaṗoeṭi)). Instead she derives from *რუალი (*ruali), from Parthian 𐫡𐫇𐫔 (rwδ /rōδ/) or Middle Persian (lwd /rōy/).[2] Bielmeier tries to overcome these phonetic problems by assuming a borrowing from Proto-Armenian *ror.[3]
In any case, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *Hrawdáh (“copper, brass”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrawdʰás.
Noun
რვალი • (rvali) (plural რვალები)
- (obsolete) bronze
- (obsolete, rare) copper; brass
References
- ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “արոյր”, 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, page 331b
- ^ Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1966) Narḳvevebi iranul-kartuli enobrivi urtiertobidan I [Studies in Iranian–Georgian Linguistic Contacts I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, page 365―366
- ^ Bielmeier, Roland (1994) “Sprachkontakte nördlich und südlich des Kaukasus”, in Roland Bielmeier, Reinhard Stempel, editors, Indogermanica et Caucasica: Festschrift für Karl Horst Schmidt zum 65. Geburtstag (in German), Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, pages 430–431
Further reading
- Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “რვალი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 347a
- Čikobava, Arnold et al., editors (1950–1964), “რვალი”, in Kartuli enis ganmarṭebiti leksiḳoni [Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian language] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Academy Press
- Tomaschek, Wilhelm (1883) “Review of Hübschmann 1883”, in Deutsche Litteraturzeitung (in German), volume IV, number 36, Berlin, columns 1253–1254, the first comparison with the Armenian