თამადა
Georgian
[edit]
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Circassian. See Kabardian тхьэмадэ (tḥɛmadɛ) for more.[1][2][3][4]
First attested at least in 1887 in Georgian-Russian Dictionary by David Chubinashvili.[5]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]თამადა • (tamada) (plural თამადები)
Synonyms
[edit]- ტოლუმბაში (ṭolumbaši)
- პურის უფალი (ṗuris upali) (dated)
- წინამძღოლი (c̣inamʒɣoli) (dated)
- მზრალი (mzrali) (dated)
- მემზირი (memziri) (dated)
- მხნის თავი (mxnis tavi) (dated)
Descendants
[edit]- → Armenian: թամադա (tʻamada)
- → Bats: თამად (tamad)
- → English: tamada
- → Ossetian: тамада (tamada)
- → Russian: тамада́ (tamadá)
- → Ukrainian: тамада́ (tamadá)
References
[edit]- ^ Abaev, V. I. (1975) “Contribution à l'histoire des mots”, in Mélanges linguistiques offerts à Emile Benveniste (in French), Louvain: Peeters, pages 8–10
- ^ Abajev, V. I. (1979) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 227
- ^ Шагиров, А. К. (1977) К. В. Ломтатидзе, editor, Этимологический словарь адыгских (черкесских) языков [Etymological Dictionary of Adyghean (Circassian) Languages][1] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, pages 82–83
- ^ Klimov, G. A. (1994) Einführung in die kaukasische Sprachwissenschaft [Introduction to Caucasian Linguistics][2] (in German), German adaptation by Jost Gippert, Hamburg: Buske Helmut, pages 295–296
- ^ Čubinov, David (1887) “თამადა”, in Грузинско-русский словарь [Georgian–Russian Dictionary][3], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press
Further reading
[edit]- Čikobava, Arnold et al., editors (1950–1964), “თამადა”, in Kartuli enis ganmarṭebiti leksiḳoni [Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian language] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Academy Press