გერი

Georgian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡeri/, [ɡ̊eɾi]
• Hyphenation: გე‧რი

Noun

გერი • (geri) (plural გერები)

1. stepchild, stepson, stepdaughter

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Mingrelian

Alternative forms

• ნგერი (ngeri)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Georgian-Zan *mgel- (“wolf”). Cognates include Georgian მგელი (mgeli).

Possibly derived from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] , but see Old Georgian მგელი (mgeli) for more.

Noun

გერი • (geri)

1. wolf

References

• Kipšidze, Iosif (1914) “გერი”, in Грамматика мингрельского (иверского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 7)‎^[1] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գայլ”, 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 512b
• Starostin, S. A. (2005) “*mgel-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages