გერმა
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Laz
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to Aleksiva from *გირმა < *დირმა < *დრიმა (*girma < *dirma < *drima), from Ancient Greek δρυμά (drumá), neutral collective to δρυμός (drumós, “forest”).
Noun
[edit]გერმა • (germa) (Latin spelling germa) (Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa–Batumi)
- mountain
- Synonym: დაღი (daği)
- მაღალა გერმაფეშენ გელამთე გამიწკედაში ზუღა იძირენ
- mağala germapeşen gelamte gamiǯǩedaşi zuğa iżiren
- Looking downhill from high mountains, the sea is visible
Derived terms
[edit]- გერმაკოჩი (germaǩoçi, “a mythological figure who lives in the forests, whose whole body is covered with hair, and who imitates everything that man does, a kind of forest man”)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “germa”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 296
- Aleksiva, Irfan Çağatay (2019) “Germakoçi'nin 'germa'sının Etimolojisi Hakkında”, in Lazoba: İrfan Çağatay Aleksiva'nin Lazlar ve Lazca üzerine fikir yazıları[1] (in Turkish), retrieved 2022-08-07
- Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “germa”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı[2] (in Turkish)
- Tandilava, Ali (2013) “გერმა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary][3], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi