გოინთხენ
Laz
Alternative forms
- გუინთხენ (guintxen) – Batumi
Etymology
From გო- (go-, preverb meaning around) + ი- (i-, Impersonal mood marker) + ნთხ- (ntx-, “to stretch, to disconnect”) + -ენ (-en, suprapersonal present tense marker). From Proto-Kartvelian *ratx- : *rtx- (“to stretch out; break, disconnect”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɔintʰxɛn/
- Hyphenation: გო‧ინთ‧ხენ
Verb
გოინთხენ • (gointxen) (Latin spelling gointxen) (Vitse–Arkabi)
- to lie down
- Synonym: გოინდვენ (goindven)
- ნანაზ ჰანდღა დიდო დაჭკინუ დო მემსოჶას ა მციქა გოინთხენ
- nanaz handğa dido daç̌ǩinu do memsofas a mʒika gointxen
- My mom is very tired today and has been lying on the sofa for a bit
- to enlarge, to expand
- ჯუმაქ ღომა კუჩხემოდვალუჩქიმი მოიდუ დო მოდვალუ ხაჲი გოინთხუ
- cumak ğoma ǩuçxemodvaluçkimi moidu do modvalu xayi gointxu
- My brother wore my shoes yesterday, and the shoe expanded badly