უნაგირი

Georgian

Etymology

From Old Georgian უნაგირი (unagiri).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [unaɡiɾi]
• Hyphenation: უნა‧გი‧რი

Noun

უნაგირი • (unagiri) (plural უნაგირები)

1. saddle

See also

• კეხი (ḳexi)

Old Georgian

Etymology

Disputed. Perhaps a Northwest Caucasian borrowing: compare Adyghe уанэ (wanɛ), Kabardian уанэ (wanɛ, “saddle”), Ubykh уанагәы (wanagʷə, “the middle part of the saddle”). Alternatively, from ჰუნჱ (hunē, “horse”) +‎ Middle Persian [script needed] (gyl- /⁠gīr-⁠/, “to hold, restrain”) (see Persian گرفتن (gereftan)).

Noun

უნაგირი • (unagiri)

1. saddle

Descendants

• Georgian: უნაგირი (unagiri)
• → Mingrelian: უნანგერი (unangeri), უნაგერი (unageri), ანაგერი (anageri), ანანგერი (anangeri), ონაგერი (onageri), ონანგერი (onangeri), ონაგირი (onagiri), ონენგერი (onengeri), ონანგირი (onangiri)
• → Svan: ჰჷნგირ (həngir), ჰინგირ (hingir), უნგირ (ungir), უნა̈გირ (unägir)

Further reading

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “უნაგირი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎^[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 1194a
• Bouda, Karl (1950) “Beiträge zur etymologischen Erforschung des Georgischen”, in Lingua (in German), volume 2, number 3, →DOI, page 293 of 291–307
• Buḳia, Manana (2016) Merab Čuxua, editor, Čerkezul-kartveluri enobrivi šexvedrebi [Circassian-Kartvelian linguistic interactions] (in Georgian), Tbilisi, →ISBN, page 17, connects with Adyghe уанэ (wanɛ, “saddle”), Kabardian уанэ (wanɛ), Ubykh уанагәы (wanagʷə)
• Chulukhadze, Alexander (2008) Etymology and semantic of Iranian loanwords in the epic of “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” By Shota Rustaveli (a PhD thesis)‎^[2] (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran, pages 473–475
• Gippert, Jost (2000) “Towards an Electronic Analysis of Svan Dialectal Divergences”, in Kartvelian Heritage‎^[3], volume 4, Kutaisi: University Press, page 141 of 134–149
• Marr, N. (1913) “Из лингвистической поездки в Абхазию. (К этнологическим вопросам)”, in Известия Императорской Академии Наук‎^[4] (in Russian), volume 16, Saint Petersburg, page 327 of 303—334
• Munkácsi, Bernát (1901) Árja és kaukázusi elemek a finn-magyar nyelvekben. I. kötet. Magyar szójegyzék [Aryan and Caucasian elements in Finnish-Hungarian languages. Volume I. Hungarian glossary] (in Hungarian), Budapest: Academy Press, pages 487–488
• Orbeli, I. (1911) “Город близнецов ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΑΣ и племя возниц ΗΝΙΟΧΟΙ”, in Журнал Министерства народного просвещения (in Russian), volume 33, Saint Petersburg, page 215, footnote 1 of 195–215
• Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “უნაგირი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 427a
• Шагиров, А. К. (1977) К. В. Ломтатидзе, editor, Этимологический словарь адыгских (черкесских) языков [Etymological Dictionary of Adyghean (Circassian) Languages]‎^[5] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, page 88