ღუტუღუტუ
Laz
Alternative forms
- ღუტუ (ğuťu) – Vizha
- ღუნდუღუნდუ (ğunduğundu) – Okordule, for the sense squirrel
Etymology
Compare dialectal Georgian ღუდო (ɣudo, “mole”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɣutʼuˈɣutʼu/
- Hyphenation: ღუ‧ტუ‧ღუ‧ტუ
Noun
ღუტუღუტუ • (ğuťuğuťu) (Latin spelling ğuťuğuťu) (Vizha)
- weasel
- Synonyms: მზენური (mzenuri), გელინჯუღი (gelincuği)
- ავლა წოდერი-ჶირიდაფე არ ღუტუღუტუ იქთენ
- avla ǯoderi-firidape ar ğuťuğuťu ikten
- A weasel wanders through the holes in the wall in the courtyard
- (figuratively) introverted, secretive person
- ღუტუ სტერი კოჭი
- ğuťu sťeri ǩoç̌i
- The man who does the undercover work
- (literally, “Man like a weasel”)
- squirrel
- Synonyms: ღაჲლა (ğayla), კატარაზი (ǩaťarazi), ძემური (żemuri)
- ღუტუღუტუ ნეზეფე მჯაში ღორმა მეშკვობღაჲ
- ğuťuğuťu nezepe mcaşi ğorma meşǩvobğay
- The squirrel is pouring (filling) the walnuts into the tree's hollow
Derived terms
- ღუტუნა (ğuťuna)
Further reading
- Kojima, Gôichi (2012–), “ğut’uğu’tu”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı (in Turkish)
- Ḳelauraʒe, Levan (2016), “Damaṭebani kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳonisatvis - III [Addenda to Etymological Dictionary of Kartvelian Languages - III]”, in Arnold čikobavas saxelobis enatmecnierebis insṭiṭuṭis samecniero sesia (in Georgian), issue 75, Tbilisi, page 7 of 30–39, glosses as Georgian ძილგუდა (ʒilguda, “dormouse”)