მგერი
Laz
Etymology
Related to Mingrelian გერი (geri) and Old Georgian მგელი (mgeli). According to Klimov's earlier work, from Proto-Georgian-Zan *mgel- (“wolf”), he however remarks that in Mingrelian-Laz *მგარ- (*mgar-) is expected.[1] In Klimov's more recent works, he no longer reconstructs Proto-Georgian-Zan. If that's correct, then this word should be treated as a borrowing from Old Georgian მგელი (mgeli) (itself possibly from Armenian, for which compare Old Armenian գայլ (gayl)[2]).
References
- Климов, Г. А. (1964), “*mgel-”, in Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 130
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “գայլ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 512–513
Further reading
- Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı; Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 208
- Марр, Н. (1910), “მგერი”, 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
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