ბორცჳ

According to Andronikashvili, an Iranian borrowing from the family of Persian برز‎ (borz, “high, tall”). For the -ც- (-c-) compare ცრუჲ (cruy).

According to Fähnrich, a Nakh borrowing: compare Ingush боарз (boarz, “gravemound, mound of earth; kurgan”), Chechen барз (barz, “hill, hillock, mound”). The Nakh terms are usually derived from Ossetian барз (barz), which is cognate with Persian برز‎ (borz).

ბორცჳ • (borcwi)

1. hill, hillock

• ბორცოვანი (borcovani)
• ბორცუთაგანი (borcutagani)

• Georgian: ბორცვი (borcvi)

• Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1946), “Iranuli c̣armošobis zogi kartuli siṭq̇vis eṭimologiisatvis [On the etymology of some Georgian words of Iranian origin]”, in Iberiul–ḳavḳasiuri enatmecniereba‎ (in Georgian), volume 1, Tbilisi: Academy Press, pages 387–388
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2022) Der Erbwortschatz der nachischen Sprachen im Kaukasus [The inherited vocabulary of Nakh languages in the Caucasus] (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, page 8
• Sardshweladse, Surab; Fähnrich, Heinz (2005), “ბორცუი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 106b

• Nikolayev, S. L.; Starostin, S. A. (1994), “*bārʒV”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers