სულუგუნი

Georgian

Alternative forms

Etymology

According to Abaev from Digor сулу (sulu, whey) + -гун (-gun, made from). Akin to Mingrelian სილოგინი (silogini), სელეგინი (selegini), სელეგუნი (seleguni), სელეგჷნი (selegəni), Laz სუგუნიშყვალი (sugunişqvali), სილინგოყვალი (silingoqvali).

Noun

სულუგუნი (suluguni) (uncountable)

  1. sulguni cheese (a pickled Georgian cheese), originally from Mingrelia

Inflection

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Hypernyms

Descendants

  • Armenian: սուլուգունի (suluguni)

Further reading

  • Абаев, В. И. (1979) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow, Leningrad: Academy Press, page 197
  • Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1966) Narḳvevebi iranul-kartuli enobrivi urtiertobidan I [Studies in Iranian–Georgian Linguistic Contacts I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, page 109
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