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ძელი

ძელი

Georgian

Noun

ძელი (ʒeli) (plural ძელები)

  1. (obsolete) tree
  2. beam
  3. log, bar
  4. (sports) goalpost (the crossbars and the two poles standing upright)

Inflection

Derived terms

  • ძელური (ʒeluri)

Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *ʒ₁el-.

Noun

ძელი (ʒeli)

  1. tree, wood
  2. an improvised boat; raft
  3. boat
  4. stick
  5. cross

Descendants

Derived terms

References

  • 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 623
  • Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 285
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 603
  • abulaʒe, ilia (1973), ძელი”, in ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 524
  • Klimov, G. A.; Xalilov, M. Š. (2003) Slovarʹ kavkazskix jazykov. Sopostavlenije osnovnoj leksiki [Dictionary of Caucasian Languages. A comparison of the Basic Vocabulary] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, ISBN 5-02-018283-4, pages 212–213