დეც

Svan

Alternative forms
  • დეცა (deca)

Etymology

From Georgian ზეცა (zeca). Displaced the native term which is only extractible from ცა̈̄შ (cǟš, “Thursday”, literally “(day) of the sky”).

Noun

დეც • (dec)

  1. sky
  2. heaven
  3. palate (roof of the mouth)

Derived terms

Further reading
  • Dondua, Ḳarṗez (2001) “დეც”, in Svanur-kartul-rusuli leksiḳoni (lašxuri dialekṭi) [Svan–Georgian–Russian Dictionary (Lashkh dialect)] (Kartvelologiuri biblioteḳa; 6), revised and prepared for publication by Aleksandre Oniani, Tbilisi: Tbilisi State Pedagogical University Press, page 79b
  • Liṗarṭeliani, Aslan (1994) “დეც”, in Svanuri leksiḳoni (čoluruli ḳilo) [Svan-Georgian dictionary (Cholur dialect)], Tbilisi, page 94a
  • Nižaradze, B. Š. (2012) “ცა, ზეცა”, in Gruzino-svansko-russkij slovarʹ. Verxnebalskij dialekt [Georgian–Svan–Russian Dictionary: Upper Bal Dialect], 2nd edition, prepared for publication and prefaced by Lela Nižaradze, Tbilisi: Universal, page 227a
  • Topuria, Varlam, Kaldani, Maksime (1994) “დეც”, in Svanuri leksiḳoni [Svan Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Merani-3 Publishing, page 406
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