მწკირი

Laz

Alternative forms

• მწკიი (mǯǩii), მწირი (mǯiri)

Etymology

From Proto-Kartvelian *g(r)c̣q̇il- / *grc̣q̇-il-.

Noun

მწკირი • (mǯǩiri) (plural მწკირეფე)

1. flea

Further reading

• Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 154
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 228
• Marr, N. (1910) “მწკირი”, 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 171b
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “მწკირი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[1], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi