მულა

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მულა • (mula) (Atina, Artasheni)

1. wych elm, Ulmus glabra

   Synonym: კარღაჭი (ḳarɣač̣i)

• Adjarian, H. (1898), “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 376, glossed as peuplier
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı; Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 226, glossed as "a type of elm"
• Çağatay Aleksiva, Irfan (2020), “mula”, in Dictionary of Laz Plant Names (LINCOM Scientific Dictionaries; 3), München: LINCOM GmbH, page 34
• Марр, Н. (1910), “მულა”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 170b, glossed as ясень (jasenʹ), with an alternative form მულუ (mulu) glossed as тополь (topolʹ)
• Tandilava, Ali (2013), “მულა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi, glossed as Georgian იფანი (ipani), კოპიტი (ḳoṗiṭi, “ash tree”) and მოლი (moli, “sward”)
• Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc; Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000), “*mal-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 316, reconstructs Proto-Georgian-Zan *mal- based on Georgian მალა (mala, “big supporting log in a house”), Mingrelian მულა (mula, “ash tree; white poplar”). First etymologised by Fahnrich in 1985, this etymology probably made it into 1990 version of Fähnrich-Sarǯvelaʒe but was subsequently removed in 1995. The entry then mistakenly reappears in their 2000 version of the dictionary. The entry is again absent in Fähnrich 2007.
• Čuxua, Merab (2009), “Damaṭebiti masalebi saertokartveluri puʒe-enis leksiḳuri pondisatvis [The Additional Materials for the Commonkartvelian Proto-language Lexical Fund]”, in Kartvelur enata sṭrukṭuris saḳitxebi (in Georgian), issue 10, Tbilisi: Universali, page 232, follows the above and connects it to Laz მულა (mula); glosses მულა (mula) as თელა (tela, “elm”)