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Laz
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Georgian-Zan *qc₁-. Cognate with Mingrelian ჩე (če, “white”), Old Georgian მჴცჱ (mqcē, “grey hair”).[1]
Adjective
ქჩე • (kçe) (Latin speeling kçe) (Atina, Vizha, Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa)
- white
white:
milk:
ტოქსერი დოლონი ოხორიშ დოლოხე ქჩე ღაპითე დობღაპი- ťokseri doloni oxoriş doloxe kçe ğap̌ite dobğap̌i
- Last week, I painted the inside of the house white
- light coloured
ქჩე ურზენი ხაზი გაჲენნა ნაკუ-თი გორუმ, ეჭოფი- kçe urzeni xazi gayenna naǩu-ti gorum, eç̌opi
- If you like white grapes, take as much as you want
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References
- ^ Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 711―712
Further reading
- Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 155
- Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 850
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 135, derives from Proto-Kartvelian *mqc₁e- (“grey hair”), further deriving Svan მეჩი (meči, “old man”) from the same root. Unbeknown to him, Svan in fact derives from Proto-Kartvelian *mec₁-, cognate with Laz უ-მჩ-ან-ე (u-mç-an-e, “elder”).