დამთირე

Laz

Alternative forms

• დამთე (damte) — Arkabi
• დამთიე (damtie), დამთიჲე (damtiye) — alternative spellings

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Georgian-Zan *deda-mtil- (“wife's/husband's mother”). Cognate with Georgian დედამთილი (dedamtili) and Mingrelian დიამთირი (diamtiri).

Noun

დამთირე • (damtire) (Latin spelling damtire)

1. mother-in-law

   დამთირექ ბერეფეზ ნუსა გოწუთხოზინამს დო დულჲაზ ნუტალამს

   damtirek berepez nusa goǯutxozinams do dulyaz nuťalams

   Mother-in-law sends her daughter-in-law to work in front of the children

Further reading

• Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 160 written as damtire
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “damtire/damtiye”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎^[1] (in Turkish)
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “დამთირე”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi