ჭკუჯი
Mingrelian
Alternative forms
- ჭკუდი (č̣ḳudi)
Etymology
From Proto-Georgian-Zan *č̣ur- (“vessel”). Cognate with Old Georgian ჭური (č̣uri, “vessel”). Note Middle Armenian կճուճ (kčuč), a Zan borrowing.
Noun
ჭკუჯი • (č̣ḳuǯi)
- vessel (container)
- ship
Derived terms
- მეჭკუჯე (meč̣ḳuǯe), მეჭკუდე (meč̣ḳude, “potter”)
Further reading
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 671–672
- Kapancjan, G. A. (1975) Istoriko-lingvističeskije raboty. Tom II [Historical-Linguistic Works. Volume II] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 369
- Kipšidze, I. (1910), “ჭკუჯი”, in Grammatika mingrelʹskago (iverskago) jazyka s xrestomatijeju i slovarem [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Materialy po jafetičeskomu jazykoznaniju; 7) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 392a
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 323
- Starostin, S. A. (2005), “*č̣ur-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages