მტი

Laz

Alternative forms

• მტირი (mťiri), მტიი (mťii), მტიჲი (mťiyi) — Borghola
• ტი (ťi)

Etymology

From Proto-Kartvelian *ṭilʿ-.

Noun

მტი • (mťi) (plural მტიეფე) (Atina, Vizha, Artasheni, Vitse, Lome)

1. louse

   მტი მემოხენ

   mťi memoxen

   I have lice on me

Further reading

• Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 390
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “mt'i”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎^[1] (in Turkish)
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 225
• Marr, N. (1910) “მტი”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 189a
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “მტი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi