მიმინოჲ

Old Georgian

Alternative forms

• მინინოჲ (mininoy)

Etymology

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Noun

მიმინოჲ • (miminoy)

1. Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)

Descendants

• Georgian: მიმინო (mimino), მინინო (minino) — Mtiuleti, Khevi, Pshavi, Khevsureti
  • → Bats: მიმინო̆ (miminŏ)
• →? Laz: მიმიჲა (mimiya)
• → Mingrelian: მიმინო (mimino)
• → Svan: მიმილ (mimil)

Further reading

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “მიმინოჲ”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎^[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 245
• Кодзоев, Т. (2010) “мимляча”, in Модернизированный ингушско-русский словарь [Modernized Ingush–Russian Dictionary], Nazran: Piligrim, page 757a, connects მიმინო (mimino) with Ingush мимляча (mimljača, “peregrine falcon”), explaining the latter as мим (mim, “silent”) + ляча (ljača, “falcon”)