მტი
Laz
Alternative forms
- ტი (ṭi)
Etymology
From Proto-Kartvelian *ṭilʿ-. Cognate with Mingrelian ტი (ṭi), Georgian ტილი (ṭili), and Svan ტიშ (ṭiš, “louse”).[1]
Noun
მტი • (mṭi) (plural მტიეფე)
- louse
Further reading
- Adjarian, H. (1898), “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 390
- Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı; Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 225
- Марр, Н. (1910), “მტი”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 189a
- Tandilava, Ali (2013), “მტი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi
References
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 401