აბედი

აბედი

Georgian

აბედი

Etymology

Klimov 1964 on the basis of აბედი (abedi), Mingrelian ობედი (obedi), Svan ჰაბედ (habed), ჰობედ (hobed), აბედ (abed) reconstructed Proto-Kartvelian *abed- (“tinder”),[1] however the reconstruction is discarded in later works[2]. Related to Old Armenian աբեթ (abetʿ) and Middle Armenian աբեդ (abed). The direction of borrowing is uncertain.

Marr considers the Armenian to be borrowed from Georgian, deriving the Kartvelian forms from a root meaning “to burn”[3]; *bdw- (“to burn”),[4] whence Svan ლი-ბიდ (li-bid), მჷ-ბიდ (mə-bid, “combustible”), ლი-ბდინ-ე (li-bdin-e, “to set on fire”). J̌ahukyan accepts the Georgian borrowing of Armenian.[5]

Ačaṙyan is skeptical and allows for the possibility that the borrowing was actually in the opposite direction, from Armenian into Kartvelian, but he does not give an etymology for the Armenian word.[6]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abedi/

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• Hyphenation: ა‧ბე‧დი

Noun

აბედი • (abedi) (plural აბედები)

1. tinder, touchwood; amadou

   აბედის სოკო ― abedis soḳo ― tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius/ignarius)

2. canker

Derived terms

• აბედივით ვაშლი (abedivit vašli)

Descendants

• → Mingrelian: ობედი (obedi), აბედი (abedi)
  • → Svan: ჰობედ (hobed)
• → Svan: ჰაბედ (habed), აბედ (abed)

References

1. Климов, Г. А. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages]‎ (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 43
2. Климов, Г. А. (1985), “Дополнения к этимологическому словарю картвельских языков. II [Additions to the Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages. II]”, in Этимология‎ (in Russian), issue 1983, Moscow: Nauka, page 168 of 166–179
3. Марр, Н. Я. (1918), “Яфетические элементы в языках Армении. X [Japhethic Elements in the Languages of Armenia. X]”, in Известия Российской Академии Наук. VI серия‎ (in Russian), volume 12, issue 6, page 339 of 317–348
4. Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 10
5. J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “աբեթ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 19
6. Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “աբեթ”, 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, page 74a

Further reading

• Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “აბედი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary, London: Garnett Press
• Starostin, S. A. (2005), “*abed-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages

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Mingrelian

Noun

აბედი • (abedi)

1. Alternative form of ობედი (obedi)