არჩილ

Georgian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /art͡ʃil/, [aɾt͡ʃʰil]
• Hyphenation: არ‧ჩილ

Proper noun

არჩილ • (arčil)

1. vocative singular of არჩილი (arčili)

Old Georgian

Etymology

According to Andronikašvili, from Middle Persian *Arčihr, a compound of elements ultimately going back to Proto-Iranian *Áryah and *ciθráh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑrtʃil/

Proper noun

არჩილ • (arčil)

1. a male given name

Descendants

• Georgian: არჩილი (arčili), აჩი (ači); აჩიკო (ačiḳo)
  • → English: Arshile (the pseudonym adopted by Arshile Gorky)
  • → Ossetian: Арчил (Arḱil) (chiefly South Ossetian)
• → Old Armenian: Արձիլ (Arjil), Արձիւղ (Arjiwł)
• → Middle Armenian: Արչիլ (Arčʻil)

References

• Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1966) Narḳvevebi iranul-kartuli enobrivi urtiertobidan I [Studies in Iranian–Georgian Linguistic Contacts I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, page 437
• Fritz, Sonja (2006) “Arčil”, in Die ossetischen Personennamen (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band III, Faszikel 3)‎^[1] (in German), based on a dissertation submitted in 1983, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, § 113, page 18