ერკინა
Laz
Alternative forms
- კიკინა (ǩiǩina), კინა (ǩina) (possibly spurious)
Etymology
Presumably inherited from Proto-Georgian-Zan *rḳina- (“iron”); see there for more.
Usage notes
The existence of the word in Laz has been put into doubt by Marr, whose interviewees did not recognize it.
References
- Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 231
- Erckert, Roderich von (1895) Die Sprachen des kaukasischen Stammes. I. Theil. Wörterverzeichniss (in German), Vienna: Alfred Hölder, § 103, page 57
- Klaproth, Julius (1823) Asia polyglotta, Paris: A. Schubart, page 122a
- Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, pages 156–157
- Marr, N. (1910) “ე-რკინა”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 182b
- Tandilava, Ali (2013) “კიკინა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi, records კიკინა (ǩiǩina) without usage examples
- “კინა”, in Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary] (in Georgian), Kartuli dialekťuri ǩorp̌usi, 2011–2014
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