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Mingrelian
Etymology
From Proto-Georgian-Zan *c̣₁irṗl-.[1][2] Cognate with Georgian წირპლი (c̣irṗli). Middle Armenian ճիպռ (čipṙ), ճպուռ (čpuṙ), is a Zan borrowing.
Noun
ჭირპი • (č̣irṗi) (plural ჭირპეფი)
- rheum, eye gunk
- Synonym: კვაკვილი (ḳvaḳvili)
References
- ^ Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 313
- ^ Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 654
Further reading
- Kajaia, Otar (2005) “ჭირპი”, in Megrul-kartuli leksiḳoni [Mingrelian–Georgian Dictionary], online version prepared by Joost Gippert, Frankfurt am Main, published 2001–2004, page 1899
- Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 54