დიმონი

Laz

Alternative forms

• დიმარი (dimari) — Vitse

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek τιμόνι (timóni). The initial /d/ is due to the voicing effect in Greek for the preceding neuter article τον (ton), also compare Ottoman Turkish دومن (dümen).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈmɔni/
• Hyphenation: დი‧მო‧ნი

Noun

დიმონი • (dimoni) (Latin spelling dimoni)

1. rudder, wheel

   დიმონი ქოდიქაჩუ დო ქომეხთუ ე შეერიშა

   dimoni kodikaçu do komextu e şeerişa

   He took the wheel and went to that city

Derived terms

• მადიმონე (madimone)

Further reading

• Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 230, records Laz დუ̈მენი (dümeni) and derives it from Ottoman Turkish دومن (dümen)
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “dimoni”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 144a
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “დიმონი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[1], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi