ბრძოლაჲ

ბრძოლაჲ

Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Kartvelian *b(o)rʒ₁-. Cognate with Mingrelian ბურჯ-აფ-ი (burǯ-ap-i, “struggle, battle, wrestle”) and Svan ლი-ბურჯ-იე̄-ლ (li-burǯ-iē-l, “fighting (of bulls); butting with horns”).[1][2]

Noun

ბრძოლაჲ • (brʒolay)

1. battle
2. war
3. formation, structure, lineup
4. merit, contribution
5. fight

Descendants

• Georgian: ბრძოლა (brʒola)

Further reading

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973), “ბრძოლაჲ”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 54
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 18, derives from Proto-Georgian-Zan *brʒ₁-, from Proto-Kartvelian *brg- (“to wrestle”), he is, however, unaware of the Svan cognate. Furthermore such derivation was described as implausible by Fähnrich.

References

1. Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, page 72–73
2. Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 79