ფიჭჳ

Old Georgian

Etymology

Related to Laz ფინჭო (pinç̌o, “pine”), ფიჭუნა (← *ფიჭუ-ონა) (piç̌una (← *piç̌u-ona), toponym, literally “pine forest”).

Noun

ფიჭჳ • (pič̣wi)

1. pine

Descendants

• Georgian: ფიჭვი (pič̣vi)
  • → Bats: ფიჭვ (pič̣v)
  • → Mingrelian: ფიჭვი (pič̣vi)
  • → Udi: пичӏв (pič̣v)
• → Middle Armenian: փիճի (pʻiči)
  • Armenian: փիճի (pʻiči)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “փիճի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 503–504
• Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 843, links Laz with Georgian ბიჭვინთა (bič̣vinta) and, less reliably, with ბეწვი (bec̣vi, “fur”)

Further reading

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “ფიჭუ”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎^[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 446a
• Bielmeier, Roland (1994) “Sprachkontakte nördlich und südlich des Kaukasus”, in Roland Bielmeier, Reinhard Stempel, editors, Indogermanica et Caucasica: Festschrift für Karl Horst Schmidt zum 65. Geburtstag (in German), Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, pages 441–443
• Furnée, Edzard Johan (1979) Vorgriechisch-Kartvelisches: Studien zum ostmediterranen Substrat nebst einem Versuch zu einer neuen pelasgischen Theorie (in German), Editions Peeters, →ISBN, page 28
• Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎^[2], PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 60