უროჲ

Old Georgian

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.

უროჲ • (uroy)

Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “უროჲ”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎^[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 430b
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “ուռն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (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 [On Abkhaz Loans in Megrelian]”, 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