ნაჴშირი

Old Georgian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *na-qšir- (“coal”), a past-participle lexeme formed by prefixing the verb stem *šwer-, *šwr- (“to put out, extinguish”), whence also შრობა (šroba), გაშრობა (gašroba), etc.; Starostin hesitantly agrees with this etymology.

Fähnrich reconstructs Proto-Georgian-Zan *naqš-, thus considering the initial *ნა (*na) to be part of the root. He derives Mingrelian and Laz cognates from the later Proto-Georgian-Zan *noxšk- archetype and notes the development of ვ (v) in Mingrelian ნოშქვერი (noškveri).

On the other hand, Dzidziguri derives from earlier *ნაშხირი (*našxiri), developed through the reduction of first ი (i) in *ნაშიხირი (*našixiri), which in turn was formed by affixation of the Svan root *შიხ- (*šix-, “combustion”). This is discarded by Klimov.

Noun

ნაჴშირი • (naqširi)

  1. coal

Descendants

References

  • Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 139
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 316
  • abulaʒe, ilia (1973), “ნაჴშირი”, in ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 326
  • 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 354
  • Starostin, S. A. (2005), “*na-qšir”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages
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