კუნძული

From Old Georgian კუნძული (ḳunʒuli).

• IPA^(key): /kʼund͡zuli/
• Hyphenation: კუნ‧ძუ‧ლი

კუნძული • (ḳunʒuli) (plural კუნძულები)

1. island

• ჭალაკი (č̣alaḳi)

• → Bats: კუნძულ (ḳunʒul)

The origin is uncertain. Possibly related to Old Armenian կղզի (kłzi). See it for more.

• კუნძუნი (ḳunʒuni)

კუნძული • (ḳunʒuli)

1. island

• Georgian: კუნძული (ḳunʒuli)
  • → Bats: კუნძულ (ḳunʒul)

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1944) Kartuli da somxuri liṭeraṭuruli urtiertoba IX—X ss-ši : Gamoḳvleva da ṭeksṭebi [Georgian and Armenian literary relations of the ninth and tenth centuries: Study and Texts]‎ (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 96
• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973), “კუნძული”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 205b
• Gippert, Jost (2005), “Das Armenische — eine indogermanische Sprache im kaukasischen Areal”, in Gerhard Meiser, Olav Hacksteing, editors, Sprachkontakt und Sprachwandel : Akten der XI. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, 17.-23. September 2000, Halle an der Saale‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: L. Reichert, pages 149–150
• Gippert, Jost (2017), “Armeno-Albanica II: Exchanging doves”, in Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen et al., editors, Usque ad radices: Indo-European studies in honour of Birgit Anette Olsen (Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European; 8)‎, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, page 179
• Marr, N. (1908) Основные таблицы к грамматике древнегрузинского языка‎ (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 9
• Mirianischvili, Pierre (1910), “Sur le rapport mutuel entre le géorgien et l'arménien”, in Revue de Linguistique et de Philologie comparée‎ (in French), volume 43, Paris, page 254 of 233–270
• Sardshweladse, Surab; Fähnrich, Heinz (2005), “კუნძული”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 584b

An Iranian borrowing: compare Persian کنجلک‎ (konjolak, “wrinkle, fold, plait”), کنجل‎ (konjol, “anything contracted, shrunk up, or wrinkled; the hand or foot with the fingers or toes contracted; bread which, by accident, has fallen into the embers of the oven”), کنج‎ (konj, “corner”). Akin to Georgian კუნჭული (ḳunč̣uli, “corner, nook”).

კუნძული • (ḳunʒuli)

1. corner, nook

• Sardshweladse, Surab; Fähnrich, Heinz (2005), “კუნძული”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 584b