ჭკორი

ჭკორი

Mingrelian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *č̣er-, *č̣ir- (“to hold, to catch”).

Noun

ჭკორი • (č̣ḳori) (plural ჭკორეფი)

1. slave, servant, captive

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 320
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 665
• Kajaia, Otar (2005), “ჭკორი”, in Megrul-kartuli leksiḳoni [Mingrelian–Georgian Dictionary], online version prepared by Joost Gippert, Frankfurt am Main, published 2001–2004, page 1055