დიმონი
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Laz
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Venetian timón (“helm, rudder”), from Late Latin tīmōnem, from Latin tēmōnem. Cognate with Turkish dümen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]დიმონი • (dimoni) (Latin spelling dimoni)
- rudder, wheel
- დიმონი ქოდიქაჩუ დო ქომეხთუ ე შეერიშა
- dimoni kodikaçu do komextu e şeerişa
- He took the wheel and went to that city
Derived terms
[edit]- მადიმონე (madimone)
Further reading
[edit]- Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 230, records Laz დუ̈მენი (dümeni) and derives it from Ottoman Turkish دومن (dümen)
- Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “dimoni”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 144a
- Tandilava, Ali (2013) “დიმონი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary][1], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi