ვიგრი

Old Georgian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Iranian *vagr,[1] according to Ačaṙyan, via Old Armenian վագր (vagr, “tiger”).

The word is first attested in the The Life of King Vakhtang Gorgasali of medieval Georgian chronicler Juansher Juansheriani.

Noun

ვიგრი • (vigri)

  1. Uncertain, but it could have been a type of large animal. see usage notes.

Usage notes

According to David Chubinashvili’s Грузинский толковый словарь с русскими комментариями, p. 216: "vigri is an animal similar to a lizard but bigger; its skin is dotted with bones, with which (skin) scabbards and other military equipment are covered." According to others the animal in question is a tiger. According to Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani the word stands for a crocodile.

References
  • The Life of King Vakhtang Gorgasali (in Russian) See commentary No. 54.
  • Čubinov, David (1840), “ვიგრი”, in Грузинско-русско-французский словарь [Georgian–Russian–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 201
  • Čubinov, David (1887), “ვიგრი”, in Gruzinsko-russkij slovarʹ [Georgian–Russian Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
  • Lubotsky: Indo-Aryan inherited lexicon.
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “վագր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  1. Rapp, Stephen H. (1997) Imagining History at the Crossroads: Persia, Byzantium, and the Architects of the Written Georgian Past (in two volumes), PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, page 407
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