მორიელი

Georgian

Etymology

According to G. Asatur (a personal communication to Ačaṙyan), borrowed from Middle Armenian մոր (mor), մորմ (morm, “a kind of poisonous spider”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /morieli/, [moɾieli]

Noun

მორიელი • (morieli) (plural მორიელები)

1. scorpion
2. Scorpio

Descendants

• → Bats: მურელ (murel), მუჲრელ (muyrel)
• → Mingrelian: მორიალე (moriale)
  • → Abkhaz: амариал (amarjal), а-мариал (a-marjal)
• → Svan: მორელ (morel)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մոր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 347b
• 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 245
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 479