ბორცჳ

Old Georgian

Etymology

According to Andronikashvili, an Iranian borrowing from the family of Persian برز (borz, “high, tall”). For the -ც- (-c-) compare ცრუჲ (cruy).

According to Fähnrich, a Nakh borrowing: compare Ingush боарз (boarz, “gravemound, mound of earth; kurgan”), Chechen барз (barz, “hill, hillock, mound”). The Nakh terms are usually derived from Ossetian барз (barz), which is cognate with Persian برز (borz).

Noun

ბორცჳ • (borcwi)

1. hill, hillock

Derived terms

• ბორცოვანი (borcovani)
• ბორცუთაგანი (borcutagani)

Descendants

• Georgian: ბორცვი (borcvi)

References

• Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1946) “Iranuli c̣armošobis zogi kartuli siṭq̇vis eṭimologiisatvis [On the etymology of some Georgian words of Iranian origin]”, in Iberiul-ḳavḳasiuri enatmecniereba [Ibero-Caucasica]‎^[1] (in Georgian), volume 1, Tbilisi: Academy Press, pages 387–388
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2022) Der Erbwortschatz der nachischen Sprachen im Kaukasus [The inherited vocabulary of Nakh languages in the Caucasus] (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, page 8
• Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “ბორცუი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 106b

Further reading

• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*bārʒV”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[2], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers