გვიმრა

Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan; reconstructions vary by source (*gwimra- by Klimov, *gwim- by Fähnrich, *gwimar- by Starostin, etc.). Cognate with Mingrelian გვიმორა (gvimora).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡvimrɑ/
  • Hyphenation: გვიმ‧რა

Noun

გვიმრა (gvimra) (plural გვიმრები)

  1. fern

Inflection

Descendants

  • →Mingrelian: გუიმარა (guimara), გუმარა (gumara)
  • →Svan: გუიმბრა (guimbra)

References

  • Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 29
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 105
  • penrixi (Fähnrich), hainc; sarǯvelaʒe, zurab (2000) kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 143
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