უროჲ

Old Georgian

Etymology

Uncertain. Probably related to the synonymous words found in Northwest Caucasian and Armenian: Abkhaz а-у́ра (a-úra), Abaza урым (urəm), уы́рма (wə́rma), Kabardian ур (wur), умэ (wumɛ) (possibly), Adyghe умэ (wumɛ) (possibly), Old Armenian ուռն (uṙn), Middle Armenian վռ- (vṙ-). A native origin has been proposed for Kabardian ур (wur) and Old Armenian ուռն (uṙn) (see those). Accordingly, the South Caucasian terms have been considered either Circassian or Armenian borrowings.

Noun

უროჲ • (uroy)

1. hammer, sledgehammer

Descendants

• Georgian: ურო (uro)
  • → Mingrelian: ურო (uro)
  • → Svan: ურ (ur), ურო (uro)

Further reading

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “უროჲ”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi)‎^[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 430b
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “ուռն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 609a
• Чирикба, В. (1998) “К вопросу об абхазских заимствованиях в мегрельском языке”, in Вопросы языкознания‎^[2], number 4, pages 132, 133, 136
• Chirikba, Viacheslav V. (2006) “Abkhaz Loans in Megrelian”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎^[3], volume 10, number 1, pages 42–43
• Mirianischvili, Pierre (1910) “Sur le rapport mutuel entre le géorgien et l'arménien”, in Revue de Linguistique et de Philologie comparée‎^[4] (in French), volume 43, Paris, page 260 of 233–270
• Рогава, Г. В. (1956) К вопросу о структуре именных основ и категориях грамматических классов в адыгских (черкесских) языках, Тбилиси: Издательство Академии Наук Грузинской ССР, page 109, derives from Circassian