ვიგრი
Old Georgian
Alternative forms
- იგრი (igri)
Etymology
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The word is first attested in the The Life of King Vakhtang Gorgasali of medieval Georgian chronicler Juansher Juansheriani.
Noun
ვიგრი • (vigri)
- Uncertain, but it could have been a type of large animal. see usage notes.
Usage notes
According to David Chubinashvili’s Грузинский толковый словарь с русскими комментариями, p. 216: "vigri is an animal similar to a lizard but bigger; its skin is dotted with bones, with which (skin) scabbards and other military equipment are covered." According to others the animal in question is a tiger. According to Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani the word stands for a crocodile.
References
- The Life of King Vakhtang Gorgasali (in Russian) See commentary No. 54.
- Čubinov, David (1840) “ვიგრი”, in Грузинско-русско-французский словарь [Georgian–Russian–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 201
- Čubinov, David (1887) “ვიგრი”, in Грузинско-русский словарь [Georgian–Russian Dictionary][1], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press
- Lubotsky: Indo-Aryan inherited lexicon.
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “վագր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
- ^ Stephen H. Rapp, Imagining History at the Crossroads: Persia, Byzantium, and the Architects of the Written Georgian Past, Volume 1, p 407