მზე

Georgian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Georgian მზე (mze), მზჱ (mzē), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Kartvelian *mz₁e-. Cognate with Svan მიჟ (miž), Mingrelian ბჟა (bža) and Laz მჟორა (mjora). Middle Armenian բոզի (bozi), բուզի (buzi, “Sun”) may be a Kartvelian borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mze/

Proper noun

მზე • (mze) (uncountable)

1. Sun

Inflection

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Declension of მზე (see Georgian declension)

	singular	plural	archaic plural
nominative	მზე (mze)
ergative	მზემ (mzem)
dative	მზეს(ა) (mzes(a))
genitive	მზის(ა) (mzis(a))
instrumental	მზით(ა) (mzit(a))
adverbial	მზედ(ა) (mzed(a))
vocative	მზევ (mzev)
Notes: archaic plurals might not exist.

Postpositional inflection of მზე (see Georgian postpositions)

postpositions taking a dative case	singular	plural
-ზე (on - )	მზეზე (mzeze)
-თან (near - )	მზესთან (mzestan)
-ში (in - )	მზეში (mzeši)
-ვით (like a - )	მზესავით (mzesavit)
postpositions taking a genitive case	singular	plural
-თვის (for - )	მზისთვის (mzistvis)
-ებრ (like a - )	მზისებრ (mzisebr)
-კენ (towards - )	მზისკენ (mzisḳen)
-გან (from/of - )	მზისგან (mzisgan)
postpositions taking an instrumental case	singular	plural
-დან (from / since - )	მზიდან (mzidan)
-ურთ (together with - )	მზითურთ (mziturt)
postpositions taking an adverbial case	singular	plural
-მდე (up to - )	მზემდე (mzemde)

Derived terms

• მზის ჩასვლა (mzis časvla)

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Old Georgian

Alternative forms

• მზჱ (mzē)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Kartvelian *mz₁e-.

Proper noun

მზე • (mze)

1. Sun

Descendants

• Georgian: მზე (mze)

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 121
• 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 327
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 289
• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “მზე”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎^[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 238