აბედი
Georgian
Etymology
Connected with Mingrelian ობედი (obedi), Svan ჰაბედ (habed), ჰობედ (hobed), აბედ (abed) on the one hand and with Old Armenian աբեթ (abetʻ), Middle Armenian աբեդ (abed) on the other. The direction of borrowing is uncertain.
Marr considers the Armenian to be borrowed from Georgian, deriving the Kartvelian forms from a root meaning “to burn”[1]; compare Svan ლი-ბიდ (li-bid), მჷ-ბიდ (mə-bid, “combustible”), ლი-ბდინ-ე (li-bdin-e, “to set on fire”). Starostin and Klimov reconstruct (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Kartvelian *abed- (“tinder”) and *bdw- (“to burn”) respectively.[2][3] J̌ahukyan accepts the Georgian borrowing of Armenian.[4]
Ačaṙyan is skeptical and allows for the possibility that the borrowing was actually in the opposite direction, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "hyx" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. into Kartvelian, but he does not give an etymology for the Armenian word.[5]
Pronunciation
Noun
აბედი • (abedi) (plural აბედები)
- tinder, touchwood; amadou
- აბედის სოკო ― abedis soḳo ― tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius/ignarius)
- canker
Derived terms
- აბედივით ვაშლი (abedivit vašli)
References
- Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “აბედი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary, London: Garnett Press
- ^ Марр, Н. Я. (1918) “Яфетические элементы в языках Армении. X [Japhethic Elements in the Languages of Armenia. X]”, in Известия Российской Академии Наук. VI серия[1] (in Russian), volume 12, number 6, page 339 of 317–348
- ^ Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 10
- ^ 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
- ^ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “աբեթ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 19
- ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “աբեթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 74a