ვიგრი
Old Georgian
Alternative forms
- იგრი (igri)
Etymology
From Middle Iranian *vagr,[1] according to Ačaṙyan, via Old Armenian վագր (vagr, “tiger”).
The word is first attested in the The Life of King Vakhtang Gorgasali of medieval Georgian chronicler Juansher Juansheriani.
Noun
ვიგრი • (vigri)
- Uncertain, but it could have been a type of large animal. see usage notes.
Usage notes
According to David Chubinashvili’s Грузинский толковый словарь с русскими комментариями, p. 216: "vigri is an animal similar to a lizard but bigger; its skin is dotted with bones, with which (skin) scabbards and other military equipment are covered." According to others the animal in question is a tiger. According to Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani the word stands for a crocodile.
References
- The Life of King Vakhtang Gorgasali (in Russian) See commentary No. 54.
- Čubinov, David (1840), “ვიგრი”, in Gruzinsko-russko-francuzskij slovarʹ [Georgian–Russian–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 201
- Čubinov, David (1887), “ვიგრი”, in Gruzinsko-russkij slovarʹ [Georgian–Russian Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
- Lubotsky: Indo-Aryan inherited lexicon.
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “վագր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
- ↑ Stephen H. Rapp, Imagining History at the Crossroads: Persia, Byzantium, and the Architects of the Written Georgian Past, Volume 1, p 407
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