შენი

Georgian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃeni/
  • Hyphenation: შე‧ნი

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Kartvelian *š(w)en-, whence also შენ (šen).

Pronoun

შენი • (šeni)

  1. your (singular), yours
    შენს საქმეს მიხედე
    šens sakmes mixede
    mind your own business
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Derived terms

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Etymology 2

From Old Georgian შჱნი (šēni), შენი (šeni), from Middle Iranian *šēn (habitation). According to Ačaṙean, the borrowing mediated via Old Armenian շէն (šēn).

Noun

შენი • (šeni) (plural შენები)

  1. village
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Adjective

შენი • (šeni) (comparative უფრო შენი, superlative ყველაზე შენი)

  1. inhabited
Synonyms

References

  • Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “შენი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 500
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “շէն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Klimov, G. A., Xalilov, M. Š. (2003) Словарь кавказских языков. Сопоставление основной лексики [Dictionary of Caucasian Languages. A comparison of the Basic Vocabulary] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, →ISBN, page 500
  • Čubinov, David (1887) “შენი”, in Грузинско-русский словарь [Georgian–Russian Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press
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