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Svan
Etymology
Borrowed from Iron Ossetian цырт (cyrt).
Noun
ჩირთ • (čirt) (plural ჩირთა̈ლ)
- cairn, heap of stones
- Synonyms: ბაჩრე გოჯ (bačre goǯ), ღო̄ნა (ɣōna)
Further reading
- Abajev, V. I. (1949) Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 298
- Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1966) Narḳvevebi iranul-kartuli enobrivi urtiertobidan I [Studies in Iranian–Georgian Linguistic Contacts I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, page 55
- Климов, Г. А. (1963) “О лексике осетинского происхождения в сванском языке [About the vocabulary of Ossetian origin in Svan]”, in Этимология (in Russian), number 1963, Moscow, page 184 of 180–186
- Topuria, Varlam, Kaldani, Maksime (1994) “ჩირთ”, in Svanuri leksiḳoni [Svan Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Merani-3 Publishing, page 1862