ლუდი

Georgian

Alternative forms

• ალუდი (aludi) — Racha

Etymology

According to Abaev, borrowed from Ossetian *ӕлут (*ælut) (see ӕлутон (æluton)); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut-. That brewing among Georgians has only been popular among highlanders neighbouring Ossetians, coupled with the fact that beer plays a central part in Alanic life and folklore may be a good indicator of the borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɫudi]
• Hyphenation: ლუ‧დი

Noun

ლუდი • (ludi) (uncountable)

1. beer

Declension

Declension of ლუდი (see Georgian declension)

	singular	plural	archaic plural
nominative	ლუდი (ludi)
ergative	ლუდმა (ludma)
dative	ლუდს(ა) (luds(a))
genitive	ლუდის(ა) (ludis(a))
instrumental	ლუდით(ა) (ludit(a))		—
adverbial	ლუდად(ა) (ludad(a))		—
vocative	ლუდო (ludo)

Notes: archaic plurals might not exist.

Postpositional inflection of ლუდი (see Georgian postpositions)

dative-case postpositions	singular	plural
-ზე (-ze, “on”)	ლუდზე (ludze)
-თან (-tan, “near”)	ლუდთან (ludtan)
-ში (-ši, “in”)	ლუდში (ludši)
-ვით (-vit, “like”)	ლუდივით (ludivit)
genitive-case postpositions	singular	plural
-თვის (-tvis, “for”)	ლუდისთვის (ludistvis)
-ებრ (-ebr, “like”)	ლუდისებრ (ludisebr)
-კენ (-ḳen, “towards”)	ლუდისკენ (ludisḳen)
-გან (-gan, “from/of”)	ლუდისგან (ludisgan)
-ადმი (-admi, “in relation to”)	ლუდისადმი (ludisadmi)
instrumental-case postpositions	singular	plural
-დან (-dan, “from/since”)	ლუდიდან (ludidan)
-ურთ (-urt, “together with”)	ლუდითურთ (luditurt)
adverbial-case postpositions	singular	plural
-მდე (-mde, “up to”)	ლუდამდე (ludamde)

References

• Abajev, V. I. (1949) Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I]‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 341
• Abajev, V. I. (1958) “ælūton | ilæton, aluton”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 130
• Thordarson, Fridrik (2009) Ossetic Grammatical Studies (Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Sitzungsberichte; 788), Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, →ISBN, page 56