მულა

Laz

Etymology 1

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Noun

მულა • (mula) (Atina, Artasheni)

1. wych elm, Ulmus glabra

   Synonym: კარღაჭი (ǩarğaç̌i)

Derived terms

• მულონა (mulona)

See also

• თელამუში (telamuşi)

Further reading

• Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 376, glossed as peuplier
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 226, glossed as "a type of elm"
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “mula”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 600a, glossed as Ulmus minor
• Aleksiva, Irfan Çağatay (2020) “mula”, in Dictionary of Laz Plant Names (LINCOM Scientific Dictionaries; 3), München: LINCOM GmbH, page 34
• Marr, N. (1910) “მულა”, 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 170b, glossed as ясень (jasenʹ), with an alternative form მულუ (mulu) glossed as тополь (topolʹ)
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “მულა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[1], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi
• Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) “*mal-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 316, reconstructs Proto-Georgian-Zan *mal- based on Georgian მალა (mala, “big supporting log in a house”), Mingrelian მულა (mula, “ash tree; white poplar”). First etymologised by Fahnrich in 1985, this etymology probably made it into 1990 version of Fähnrich-Sarǯvelaʒe but was subsequently removed in 1995. The entry then mistakenly reappears in their 2000 version of the dictionary. The entry is again absent in Fähnrich 2007.
• Čuxua, Merab (2009) “Damaṭebiti masalebi saertokartveluri puʒe-enis leksiḳuri pondisatvis [The Additional Materials for the Commonkartvelian Proto-language Lexical Fund]”, in Kartvelur enata sṭrukṭuris saḳitxebi (in Georgian), number 10, Tbilisi: Universali, page 232 of 227–250, follows the above and connects it to Laz მულა (mula); glosses მულა (mula) as თელა (tela, “elm”)
• Čuxua, Merab (2019) Manana Mač̣avariani, Manana Buḳia, editors, Georgian–Circassian–Apkhazian Etymological Dictionary (expanded edition)‎^[2], Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, pages 268–269

Etymology 2

From Proto-Kartvelian *mol-.

Noun

მულა • (mula) (Latin spelling mula)

1. fresh grass, sward

Further reading

• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “მულა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[3], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi