ფუქირი

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Laz

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Kartvelian *pakl-. Cognate with Old Georgian ფა(ნ)ქლი (pa(n)kli, mange, boil) and Svan ფაქა̈რ (pakär, pus, sore, ulcer).[1][2] Typologically, compare Old Armenian ծաղիկ (całik), Proto-Turkic *čeček, Mandarin 天花 (tiānhuā) and Latin variola for the sense development.

Noun

ფუქირი (pukiri) (KhopaBatumi)

  1. flower, leaf
  2. smallpox (disease)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) “*pakal-”, in Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, page 229, on the basis of Georgian ფანქალი (pankali, mange, boil) documented by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani reconstructs Proto-Kartvelian *pakal-.
  2. ^ Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) “*pakl-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 429

Further reading

  • Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 383
  • Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 297
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ფუქირი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎, online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi
  • Marr, N. (1910) “ფურკი”, 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 195a, glossed as "tree leaf".