ნეზვი

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Georgian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Georgian ნეზჳ (nezwi, nanny goat), from Proto-Kartvelian *ne-zw-, from Proto-Kartvelian *zw- (to kitten, to fawn, to bear (animals)). Ketevan Lomtatidze connects it with words such as Laz ბოზო (bozo, girl), Svan ზურალ (zural, woman), Adyghe хьабзы (ḥabzə, bitch (a female dog)) or more broadly бзы (bzə, female).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /nezvi/, [nezʷi]
  • Hyphenation: ნეზ‧ვი

Noun[edit]

ნეზვი (nezvi) (plural ნეზვები)

  1. sow (a female pig)
  2. ewe (a female sheep)
  3. nanny goat
  4. (by extension) a sow, a ewe or a nanny goat saved for breeding

Inflection[edit]

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Descendants[edit]

  • Bats: ნეზვ (nezv)

References[edit]

  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 171
  • Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, pages 87, 146–147
  • Lomtatiʒe, K. (1961) “Gakvavebul gramaṭiḳul ḳlas-nišanta saḳitxisatvis apxazuri enis saxelis puʒeebši [On the issue of fossilized grammatical class indicators in the stems of the substantives of the Abkhaz language]”, in Bulletin of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences[1] (in Georgian), volume 26, number 1, page 117 of 115–122