სუფთა

Georgian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hittite [script needed] (suppi, “clean”). Most likely a Proto-Kartvelian borrowing during the late, Proto-Karto-Zan stage of development (XIX-VIII centuries BC).(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

On the other hand, according to Ačaṙean, borrowed from Iranian from a word in the family of Persian سفید (safid, “white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /supʰtʰɑ/

Adjective

indeclinable

სუფთა • (supta) (comparative უფრო სუფთა, superlative ყველაზე სუფთა)

1. blank, pristine, clean, pure, spotless, stainless, unadulterated, unalloyed

Declension

Adjectival declension of სუფთა

Case	adjective
nominative, genitive, instrumental	სუფთა (supta)
ergative	სუფთა (supta)
dative, adverbial	სუფთა (supta)
vocative	სუფთა (supta)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սպիտակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 265a