მეგრელი

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Georgian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Georgian მეგრელი (megreli), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Georgian-Zan *m-egr-el-, from the root *egr-. Compare ქართველი (kartveli). Cognates include Mingrelian მარგალი (margali).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meɡreli/, [meɡɾeli]
  • Hyphenation: მეგ‧რე‧ლი

Noun

მეგრელი (megreli) (plural მეგრელები)

  1. Mingrelian

Inflection

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Old Georgian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Georgian-Zan *m-egr-el-, from the root *egr-. Cognate with the toponym of the ancient western Georgian kingdom of ეგრისი (egrisi), which was home to Mingrelians.

Noun

მეგრელი (megreli)

  1. Mingrelian

Usage notes

A more common term in the middle ages was ოდიშელი (odišeli)

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Georgian: მეგრელი (megreli)

References

  • Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 185
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 145
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 118