ღალი

Laz

Etymology

From Proto-Kartvelian *ɣel- (“ravine, gully”). Compare Georgian ღელე (ɣele, “stream, fleet, creek, ford”).

Noun

ღალი • (ğali) (Latin spelling ğali) (Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa–Batumi)

1. river, creek, stream

   Synonyms: რუბა (ruba), აბჯა (abca), აბჟა (abja)

   ღალეფე დოსქურეზ

   ğalepe doskurez

   Streams dried up

Further reading

• Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 851
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*ɣelo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 222
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “ğali”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎^[1] (in Turkish), retrieved 2022-07-09
• Marr, N. (1910) “ღალი”, 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 200a
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ღალი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi