მჷშკიდ

Svan

Alternative forms
  • მჷშკა̈̄დი (məšḳǟdi), მჷშკა̈დი (məšḳädi), მჷშკა̄დი (məšḳādi)

Etymology

From Proto-Kartvelian *č̣ed- (“to hammer, to nail”). Closest cognates include Georgian მჭედელი (mč̣edeli) and Mingrelian ჭკადუ (č̣ḳadu).

Noun

მჷშკიდ • (məšḳid)

  1. smith, blacksmith

References
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 666
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 320
  • Topuria, Varlam; Kaldani, Maksime (1994), “მჷშკიდ”, in Svanuri leksiḳoni [Svan Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Merani-3 Publishing, page 1342
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