თხე̄რე

Svan

Alternative forms
  • თხა̈̄რე (txǟre), თხერე (txere)

Etymology

The ultimate origin is uncertain.

According to Čuxua, from *თხეუ̂-ლ-ე (*txeû-l-e), from Proto-Kartvelian *txew-l- (“to hunt, to catch”).[1] Other sources reconstruct a similar Proto-Kartvelian root but don't consider თხე̄რე (txēre) to be derived from it.[2][3][4]

According to others, this is a borrowing from Ancient Greek θήρ (thḗr, “wild beast”), replacing the native term due to a taboo.[5][6]

Noun

თხე̄რე • (txēre) (plural თხე̄რა̈̄ლ or თხე̄რე̄ლ)

  1. wolf

References
  1. Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, pages 110-111
  2. Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) “*txew-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 249
  3. Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) “*txew-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 207
  4. Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*txewl-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 78
  5. Gamkrelidze, Th. V., Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 416–417
  6. Tuite, Kevin, Schulze, Wolfgang (1998) “A Case of Taboo-Motivated Lexical Replacement in the Indigenous Languages of the Caucasus”, in Anthropological Linguistics‎, volume 40, number 3, page 372 of 363–383

Further reading
  • Topuria, Varlam, Kaldani, Maksime (1994) “თხე̄რე”, in Svanuri leksiḳoni [Svan Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Merani-3 Publishing, page 568
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