დოჸია

Mingrelian

Alternative forms

დოჸი (doʾi), დუჸია (duʾia)

Etymology

Unknown.

Čuxua connects it with Adyghe атакъэ (aataaqe, “rooster, cock”), Kabardian адакъэ (aadaaqe), Ubykh táqa.[1] Note however that these forms are traditionally reconstructed as Proto-Northwest Caucasian *t:aq:a (“cock, rooster”),[2][3] but Mingrelian ჸ ← *ყ (ʾ ← *q̇) cannot go back to *q and specifically Kabardian borrowings are unknown in Mingrelian.

A relation with Turkic is phonetically difficult, but compare Ottoman Turkish طاوق‎‎ (tavuq, “fowl, hen”).

Noun

დოჸია • (doʾia)

hen under two-five months
Synonyms: დადულია (dadulia), ვარიჸა (variʾa)

References

Čuxua, Merab (2019), Manana Mač̣avariani, Manana Buḳia, editors, Georgian–Circassian–Apkhazian Etymological Dictionary (expanded edition)‎, Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, pages 157–158, treats Kartvelian and Northwest Caucasian as "genetically related" within the almost universally discredited Ibero-Caucasian hypothesis
Nikolayev, S. L.; Starostin, S. A. (1994), “*t:aq:a”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
Ḳvaxaʒe, Aleksandre (2014), Merab Čuxua, editor, Čerkezul ena-ḳilo-tkmata semanṭiḳur-šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Comparative-Semantic Dictionary of Circassian Languages and Dialects] (in Georgian), Tbilisi, page 77

Kajaia, Otar (2005), “დოჸია”, in Megrul-kartuli leksiḳoni [Mingrelian–Georgian Dictionary], online version prepared by Joost Gippert, Frankfurt am Main, published 2001–2004, page 442, incorrectly glosses as simply ქათამი (katami)
Кипшидзе, Иосиф (1914), “დოჸია”, in Грамматика мингрельского (иверского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 7) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, pages 228a–228b
Kobalia, Alio (2010), “დოჸია”, in Merab Čuxua, Nona Kobalia, Nana Kobalia, editors, Megruli leksiḳoni [Mingrelian Dictionary] (Ḳolxuri seria; 7), online version prepared by Manana Buḳia, Tbilisi: Artanuji, →ISBN

[1] Čuxua, Merab (2019), Manana Mač̣avariani, Manana Buḳia, editors, Georgian–Circassian–Apkhazian Etymological Dictionary (expanded edition)‎, Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, pages 157–158, treats Kartvelian and Northwest Caucasian as "genetically related" within the almost universally discredited Ibero-Caucasian hypothesis

[2] Nikolayev, S. L.; Starostin, S. A. (1994), “*t:aq:a”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

[3] Ḳvaxaʒe, Aleksandre (2014), Merab Čuxua, editor, Čerkezul ena-ḳilo-tkmata semanṭiḳur-šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Comparative-Semantic Dictionary of Circassian Languages and Dialects] (in Georgian), Tbilisi, page 77