ღუარძლი

ღუარძლი

Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *ɣwarʒl-. Cognate with Mingrelian ღურძული (ɣurʒuli, “plague, misfortune”), Laz ღურძული (ɣurʒuli, “poison; plague, misfortune”).[1][2]

According to J̌ahukyan, Middle Armenian խորձուիլ (xorjuil), Armenian խավարծիլ (xavarcil, “rhubarb”), is borrowed from Kartvelian.[3]

Noun

ღუარძლი • (ɣuarʒli)

1. darnel, poison darnel (Lolium temulentum)

Descendants

• Georgian: ღვარძლი (ɣvarʒli)

Further reading

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973), “ღუარძლი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 464a

References

1. Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 224―225
2. Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 484
3. Djahukian, Gevorg (2003), “Notes on Some Lexical Correspondences between Armenian and the Kartvelian Languages”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎, volume 7, issue 1/2, page 193 of 191–194