აბედი

Georgian

აბედი

Etymology

Inherited from Old Georgian აბედი (abedi). Further etymology is unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [abedi]

Noun

აბედი • (abedi) (plural აბედები)

1. tinder, touchwood; amadou

   აბედის სოკო ― abedis soḳo ― tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius/ignarius)

2. canker

Derived terms

• აბედივით ვაშლი (abedivit vašli)
• აბედა (abeda)

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: աբեթ (abetʻ), աբէդ (abēd), աբեդ (abed)
  • Armenian: աբեթ (abetʻ), աբՙբՙեթ (abʻbʻetʻ) — Haçin, աբՙէթ (abʻētʻ) — Kharberd, ափէթ (apʻētʻ) — Hamshen, աբՙիթ (abʻitʻ) — Zeitun, աբէթ (abētʻ) — Karabakh
• → Mingrelian: ობედი (obedi), აბედი (abedi)
  • → Svan: ჰობედ (hobed)
• → Svan: ჰაბედ (habed), ჰაბო̈დ (haböd), აბედ (abed), ა̈ბედ (äbed), აბედ (abed)
• → Turkish: abet — Artvin

Further reading

• Bläsing, Uwe (2015) “Georgische Gewächse auf türkischer Erde: Ein Beitrag zur Phytonomie in Nordostanatolien”, in Uwe Bläsing, Victoria Arakelova and Matthias Weinreich, editors, Studies on Iran and the Caucasus: In honour of Garnik Asatrian (in German), Leiden: Brill, →DOI, pages 256–260
• Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 43, reconstructs Proto-Kartvelian
• Klimov, G. A. (1985) “Дополнения к этимологическому словарю картвельских языков. II”, in Этимология‎^[1] (in Russian), number 1983, Moscow: Nauka, page 168 of 166–179, discards the aforementioned reconstruction
• Marr, N. (1918) “Яфетические элементы в языках Армении. X”, in Известия Российской Академии Наук. VI серия‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 12, number 6, page 339 of 317–348, derives from the root underlying Svan ლი-ბიდ (li-bid), მჷ-ბიდ (mə-bid, “combustible”), ლი-ბდ-ინ-ე (li-bd-in-e, “to set on fire”) (see Proto-Kartvelian *bdw-)
• Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “აბედი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary, London: Garnett Press
• Starostin, S. A. (2005) “*abed-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages

Mingrelian

Noun

აბედი • (abedi)

1. Alternative form of ობედი (obedi)