კარგი
Appearance
Georgian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- კაი (ḳai) — syncopated
- კაქი (ḳaki) — hypocoristic
Etymology
[edit]From Old Georgian კარგი (ḳargi), from Old Armenian կարգ (karg).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Adjectival declension of კარგი
კარგი • (ḳargi) (comparative უკეთესი, superlative საუკეთესო)
Derived terms
[edit]- სიკარგე (siḳarge)
Interjection
[edit]კარგი • (ḳargi)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Orbeliani, Sulxan-Saba (1685–1716) “კარქი”, in S. Iordanišvili, editor, Siṭq̇vis ḳona kartuli, romel ars leksiḳoni [Collection of Georgian words, that is a dictionary][1], Tbilisi: Georgian SSR print, published 1949, page 161b
Old Georgian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Armenian կարգ (karg, “order”). The sense "good" developed via the sense "good order".
Noun
[edit]კარგი • (ḳargi)
Adjective
[edit]კარგი • (ḳargi)
Descendants
[edit]- Georgian: კარგი (ḳargi), კაი (ḳai) — syncopated, კაქი (ḳaki) — hypocoristic
References
[edit]- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կարգ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 548b
- Klimov, G. A., Xalilov, M. Š. (2003) Словарь кавказских языков. Сопоставление основной лексики [Dictionary of Caucasian Languages. A comparison of the Basic Vocabulary] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, →ISBN, page 353
- Mirianischvili, Pierre (1910) “Sur le rapport mutuel entre le géorgien et l'arménien”, in Revue de Linguistique et de Philologie comparée[2] (in French), volume 43, Paris, page 252 of 233–270
Further reading
[edit]- Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “კარგი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 551b
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- Georgian terms inherited from Old Georgian
- Georgian terms derived from Old Georgian
- Georgian terms borrowed from Old Armenian
- Georgian terms derived from Old Armenian
- Georgian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Georgian lemmas
- Georgian adjectives
- Georgian interjections
- Old Georgian terms borrowed from Old Armenian
- Old Georgian terms derived from Old Armenian
- Old Georgian lemmas
- Old Georgian nouns
- Old Georgian adjectives