შაშჳ

Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *zašw-.

Noun

შაშჳ • (šašwi)

1. thrush (Turdidae)

Descendants

• Georgian: შაშვი (šašvi)
  • → Bezhta: шашу (šašu, “swallow”)
  • → Udi: ч̍ач̍у (č̍ač̍u)

Further reading

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “შაშუ”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎^[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 471b
• Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “შაშუ-ი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1319a