Talk:კალათა
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Solarkoid
Perhaps borrowed from Greek καλάθι? Ploggy344 (talk) 12:01, 14 July 2020 (UTC)Ploggy
- From κάλαθος (kálathos). --Vahag (talk) 13:15, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
- კალათა possibly comes from diminutive suffix -ა on the word კალათი, there are many examples of such alternative forms. Ye and I don't think where it was borrowed from had an -i because Georgian would've made that -i into a root, though it could've been like that and then changed. Solarkoid (talk) 05:23, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
- It could also be the ending of the Syriac. To do etymology well, one needs to do a philological analysis first, like I do for the Armenian. Determine the period of the work: Old, Middle or New Georgian. In case of New Georgian, see if the word is dialectal or literary. If dialectal, determine the region. In case of Old and Middle Georgian, determine the work it appears in. If the work is a translation, determine the language of the translation and find what word it translates. If you do all that, the answer will be much easier. --Vahag (talk) 07:01, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
- Ooh thank you for the совет. True these can be tricky. I'll look into კალათა see if Akaki Shanidze has wrote something about the -i/-a interchangeability in Georgian. Solarkoid (talk) 07:13, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
- It could also be the ending of the Syriac. To do etymology well, one needs to do a philological analysis first, like I do for the Armenian. Determine the period of the work: Old, Middle or New Georgian. In case of New Georgian, see if the word is dialectal or literary. If dialectal, determine the region. In case of Old and Middle Georgian, determine the work it appears in. If the work is a translation, determine the language of the translation and find what word it translates. If you do all that, the answer will be much easier. --Vahag (talk) 07:01, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
- კალათა possibly comes from diminutive suffix -ა on the word კალათი, there are many examples of such alternative forms. Ye and I don't think where it was borrowed from had an -i because Georgian would've made that -i into a root, though it could've been like that and then changed. Solarkoid (talk) 05:23, 23 August 2020 (UTC)