მდელოჲ

Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Armenian *deło (“vegetation, grass, herb”), the ancestor of Old Armenian դեղ (deł), genitive դեղոյ (dełoy).^[1]^[2]^[3]

If, however, this word is cognate with Mingrelian დოლო (dolo), ნდოლო (ndolo), then Proto-Georgian-Zan *dol- is reconstructible, whose vocalism is incompatible with the Armenian. For the rare cases of umlaut in Georgian, see Sarǯvelaʒe.^[4]

Noun

მდელოჲ • (mdeloy)

grass
soap

Usage notes

In translations, corresponds to Old Armenian խոտ (xot), դալար (dalar), դեղ (deł), օճառ (ōčaṙ) and բանջար (banǰar).

Derived terms

მდელოვანი (mdelovani)
მდელოჲსმძოარი (mdeloysmʒoari)

Descendants

Georgian: მდელო (mdelo)
- → Mingrelian: დელო (delo)

References

^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “դեղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 649b, 648a
^ Djahukian, Gevorg (2003) “Notes on Some Lexical Correspondences between Armenian and the Kartvelian Languages”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎^[1], volume 7, number 1/2, page 192 of 191–194
^ Gippert, Jost (2005) “Das Armenische — eine indogermanische Sprache im kaukasischen Areal”, in Gerhard Meiser, Olav Hacksteing, editors, Sprachkontakt und Sprachwandel : Akten der XI. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, 17.-23. September 2000, Halle an der Saale‎^[2] (in German), Wiesbaden: L. Reichert, page 152, footnote 59
^ Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (1985) “Umlauṭis ḳvali kartulši [Traces of umlaut in Georgian]”, in Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis moambe (in Georgian), volume 120, number 1, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 197―200

Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “მდელო”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎^[3] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 226b
Abulaʒe, Ilia (2014) “მდელო”, in Ʒvelkartuli-ʒvelsomxuri doḳumenṭirebuli leksiḳoni [Old Georgian – Old Armenian Documentary Dictionary], Tbilisi: National Centre of Manuscripts, →ISBN, page 409b
Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “მდელო”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: Garnett Press
Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “მდელოჲ”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 638b
Č̣araia, Ṗeṭre (1895) “Megruli dialekṭis natesaobrivi damoḳidebuleba kartultan [The genetic relation of the Mingrelian dialect to Georgian]”, in Moambe‎^[5] (in Georgian), number 12, Tbilisi, page 110
Fähnrich, Heinz (1980) “К картвельской лексике [To Kartvelian vocabulary]”, in Этимология‎^[6] (in Russian), number 1978, translated from German by G. A. Klimov, Moscow: Nauka, page 179 of 178–181

[1] Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “դեղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 649b, 648a

[2] Djahukian, Gevorg (2003) “Notes on Some Lexical Correspondences between Armenian and the Kartvelian Languages”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎^[1], volume 7, number 1/2, page 192 of 191–194

[3] Gippert, Jost (2005) “Das Armenische — eine indogermanische Sprache im kaukasischen Areal”, in Gerhard Meiser, Olav Hacksteing, editors, Sprachkontakt und Sprachwandel : Akten der XI. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, 17.-23. September 2000, Halle an der Saale‎^[2] (in German), Wiesbaden: L. Reichert, page 152, footnote 59

[4] Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (1985) “Umlauṭis ḳvali kartulši [Traces of umlaut in Georgian]”, in Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis moambe (in Georgian), volume 120, number 1, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 197―200

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