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ნემსი

ნემსი

Georgian

Noun

ნემსი (nemsi) (plural ნემსები)

  1. needle

Inflection

Derived terms

See also


Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *nems₁-. Bouda derives the latter from Proto-Indo-European *sīw-, but this is considered uncertain by Klimov.

Noun

ნემსი (nemsi)

  1. needle

Derived terms

  • ნემსული (nemsuli)

Descendants

References

  • Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 141
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 317
  • penrixi (Fähnrich), hainc; sarǯvelaʒe, zurab (2000) kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 357
  • abulaʒe, ilia (1973), ნემსი”, in ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 327
  • Karl Bouda (1950), Beiträge zur etymologischen Erforschung des Georgischen (Lingua 2), J.H. Gottmer, page 300