წერა

Georgian

Etymology

From Old Georgian წერაჲ (c̣eray), from Proto-Kartvelian *c̣₁er- ~ *c̣₁r- (to scratch, depict). წერაქვი (c̣erakvi, pickaxe), წრე (c̣re, circle) and წირი (c̣iri, line) may be cognates. Old Armenian ծիր (cir, circle) is a Kartvelian borrowing.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sʼera/, [t͡sʼeɾa]
  • Hyphenation: წე‧რა

Noun

წერა • (c̣era) (uncountable)

  1. (superstition) fate

Inflection

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Verbal noun

წერა • (c̣era) (impf., perfective დაწერა)

  1. verbal noun of წერს (c̣ers)
  2. verbal noun of სწერს (sc̣ers)
  3. verbal noun of იწერს (ic̣ers)
  4. verbal noun of უწერს (uc̣ers)
  5. verbal noun of იწერება (ic̣ereba)
  6. verbal noun of ეწერება (ec̣ereba)
  7. verbal noun of წერია (c̣eria)
  8. verbal noun of აწერია (ac̣eria)
  9. verbal noun of უწერია (uc̣eria)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “ծիր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 459ab
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 648–649
  • Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 249
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 309
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