ჶურნი

Laz

Alternative forms

• ჶუნნი (funni)

Etymology

From Pontic Greek φουρνί (fourní), φουρνίν (fournín), ultimately from Latin furnus. Doublet of ჶურუნი (furuni).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu(ɹ)ni/
• Hyphenation: ჶურ‧ნი

Noun

ჶურნი • (furni) (Latin spelling furni)

1. oven

   Synonym: კოდაგრესტა (ǩodagresťa)

   ხჩინიქ ჶურნიშა არ კიცი ქომუღუ

   xçinik furnişa ar ǩiʒi komuğu

   An old woman brought a cake to the oven

Further reading

• Adjarian, H. (1898) “funni”, in “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 231
• Marr, N. (1910) “ჶურნი”, 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 240b
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ჶურნი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[1], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi