შოლტი

Georgian

Etymology

From Old Georgian შოლტი (šolṭi), from Proto-Georgian-Zan *šol-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃoltʼi/
  • Hyphenation: შოლ‧ტი

Noun

შოლტი • (šolṭi) (plural შოლტები)

  1. whip, switch
  2. leather strip for sandal-making
  3. (Lower Imereti) cane
    Synonym: წკეპლა (c̣ḳeṗla)
  4. (Pshavi, Mtiuleti) roof transom

Inflection

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Derived terms

  • შოლტა (šolṭa)
  • შოლტაობს (šolṭaobs)
  • შოლტავს (šolṭavs)
  • შოლტკავი (šolṭḳavi), შოლტყავი (šolṭq̇avi)

Descendants

  • Armenian: շոլտի (šolti)
  • Pontic Greek: σόλτ' (sólt')
  • Turkish: (Sarıkamış) şoldu, (Hemşin) şolt

Further reading

  • Čikobava, Arnold et al., editors (1950–1964), “შოლტი”, in Kartuli enis ganmarṭebiti leksiḳoni [Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian language] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Academy Press
  • Orbeliani, Sulxan-Saba (1685–1716) “შოლტი”, in S. Iordanišvili, editor, Siṭq̇vis ḳona kartuli, romel ars leksiḳoni [Collection of Georgian words, that is a dictionary], Tbilisi: Georgian SSR print, published 1949, page 419a
  • Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “შოლტი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary, London: Garnett Press

Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *šol-.

Noun

შოლტი • (šolṭi)

  1. whip

Descendants

  • Georgian: შოლტი (šolṭi)
  • Mingrelian: შორტი (šorṭi), შერტი (šerṭi)
  • ? Laz: შორთი (şorti)
  • Svan: შუ̂ელტ (šûelṭ), შო̈ლტ (šölṭ), შოლტ (šolṭ)
  • ? Old Armenian: շերտ (šert) (via a Zan language)
  • ? Aramaic: (whip)
    Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Jewish Literary Aramaic, Jewish Babylonian Aramaicשׁוֹטָא (šōṭā)
    Classical Syriac: ܫܱܘܛܳܐ (šawṭā)
    Classical Mandaic: ࡑࡀࡅࡈࡀ (šawṭa), ࡑࡅࡈࡀ (šuṭa)
    • Arabic: سَوْط (sawṭ) (see there for further descendants)
    • Amharic: ሾጥ (šoṭṭ)
    • Demotic: šwte
    • Tigre: ሸወጠ (šäwäṭä, to flog)
    • Tigrinya: ሸወጠ (šäwwäṭä)
  • ? Aramaic: (staff, cane, branch)
    Jewish Literary Aramaic, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: שׁוֹטִיתָא (šōṭīṯā), שׁוֹטְיָא (šōṭəyā)
  • ? Hebrew: שׁוֹט (šōṭ)

Further reading

  • Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “შოლტი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 506a
  • Марр, Н. Я. (1910) “Надпись Епифания, католикоса Грузии (Из раскопок в Ани 1910 г.) [The inscription of Epiphanius, the catholicos of Georgia (From excavations of Ani in 1910)]”, in Известия Императорской Академии наук (in Russian), volume XIV, Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 1436 of 1433–1442
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