ვიგრი

Old Georgian

Etymology

Together with Old Armenian վագր (vagr, “tiger”) borrowed from an unattested Iranian word related to or borrowed from Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghra, “tiger”). To explain the difference of vowel from the Armenian Gippert reconstructs Iranian *v(i)yāgr- from which the Armenian and Georgian are borrowed indepedently.

Noun

ვიგრი • (vigri)

1. tiger
   • 9th–14th centuries, The Georgian Chronicles :

     და აღჯდა ტაიჭსა შეჭურვილსა ჯავშნითა, დააღიღო ფარი მისი ვიგრის ტყავისა, რომელსა ვერ ჰკუეთდა მახჳლი, და ჩავლო გუერდი დამიდგა მახლობელად მდინარისა.

     da aɣǯda ṭaič̣sa šeč̣urvilsa ǯavšnita, daaɣiɣo pari misi vigris ṭq̇avisa, romelsa ver hḳuetda maxwili, da čavlo guerdi damidga maxlobelad mdinarisa.

     • Translation by Robert W. Thomson

       He mounted his horse, which was covered with chain-armour; he took up his shield of tiger-skin, which a sword could not cut; then he descended the hill and stood close to the river.

Descendants

• Georgian: მიგრი (migri) — Khevsureti

References

More information

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979) “վագր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 292b
• Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1966) Narḳvevebi iranul-kartuli enobrivi urtiertobidan I [Studies in Iranian–Georgian Linguistic Contacts I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, pages 239–241
• Chkeidze, Thea (2001) “Georgia V. Linguistic contacts with Iranian languages”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica‎^[1], volume 10, New York, page 490a of 486–490
• Čubinov, David (1840) “ვიგრი”, in Грузинско-русско-французский словарь [Georgian–Russian–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 202a
• Gippert, Jost (1993) Iranica Armeno-Iberica: Studien zu den iranischen Lehnwörtern im Armenischen und Georgischen (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte; 606. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Iranistik; 26)‎^[2] (in German), volume I, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 122
• Rapp, Stephen H. (1997) Imagining History at the Crossroads: Persia, Byzantium, and the Architects of the Written Georgian Past (in two volumes), PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, page 407
• Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “ვიგრი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 451b
• Šaniʒe, Aḳaḳi (1959) Sinuri mravaltavi 864 c̣lisa (Kartuli enis ḳatedris šromebi; 5) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: University Press, page 325

• Thomson, Robert W. (1996) Rewriting Caucasian History: The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles. The Original Georgian Texts and the Armenian Adaptation, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 19