აბედი
Appearance
Georgian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Georgian აბედი (abedi). Further etymology is unknown.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]აბედი • (abedi) (plural აბედები)
- tinder, touchwood; amadou
- აბედის სოკო ― abedis soḳo ― tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius/ignarius)
- canker
Derived terms
[edit]- აბედივით ვაშლი (abedivit vašli)
- აბედა (abeda)
Descendants
[edit]- → Middle Armenian: աբեթ (abetʻ), աբէդ (abēd), աբեդ (abed)
- → Mingrelian: ობედი (obedi), აბედი (abedi)
- → Svan: ჰობედ (hobed)
- → Svan: ჰაბედ (habed), ჰაბო̈დ (haböd), აბედ (abed), ა̈ბედ (äbed), აბედ (abed)
- → Turkish: abet — Artvin
Further reading
[edit]- Bläsing, Uwe (2015) “Georgische Gewächse auf türkischer Erde: Ein Beitrag zur Phytonomie in Nordostanatolien”, in Uwe Bläsing, Victoria Arakelova and Matthias Weinreich, editors, Studies on Iran and the Caucasus: In honour of Garnik Asatrian (in German), Leiden: Brill, , pages 256–260
- Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 43, reconstructs Proto-Kartvelian
- Klimov, G. A. (1985) “Дополнения к этимологическому словарю картвельских языков. II [Additions to the Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages. II]”, in Этимология[1] (in Russian), number 1983, Moscow: Nauka, page 168 of 166–179, discards the aforementioned reconstruction
- Marr, N. (1918) “Яфетические элементы в языках Армении. X [Japhethic Elements in the Languages of Armenia. X]”, in Известия Российской Академии Наук. VI серия[2] (in Russian), volume 12, number 6, page 339 of 317–348, derives from the root underlying Svan ლი-ბიდ (li-bid), მჷ-ბიდ (mə-bid, “combustible”), ლი-ბდ-ინ-ე (li-bd-in-e, “to set on fire”) (see Proto-Kartvelian *bdw-)
- Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “აბედი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary, London: Garnett Press
- Starostin, S. A. (2005) “*abed-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages
Mingrelian
[edit]Noun
[edit]აბედი • (abedi)
- Alternative form of ობედი (obedi)