აბედი

Georgian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Georgian აბედი (abedi). Further etymology is unknown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [abedi]

Noun

აბედი • (abedi) (plural აბედები)

  1. tinder, touchwood; amadou
    აბედის სოკო ― abedis soḳo ― tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius/ignarius)
  2. canker

Derived terms

  • აბედივით ვაშლი (abedivit vašli)
  • აბედა (abeda)

Descendants

  • → Middle Armenian: աբեթ (abetʻ), աբէդ (abēd), աբեդ (abed)
    • Armenian: աբեթ (abetʻ), աբՙբՙեթ (abʻbʻetʻ) — Haçin, աբՙէթ (abʻētʻ) — Kharberd, ափէթ (apʻētʻ) — Hamshen, աբՙիթ (abʻitʻ) — Zeitun, աբէթ (abētʻ) — Karabakh
  • → Mingrelian: ობედი (obedi), აბედი (abedi)
    • → Svan: ჰობედ (hobed)
  • → Svan: ჰაბედ (habed), ჰაბო̈დ (haböd), აბედ (abed), ა̈ბედ (äbed), აბედ (abed)
  • → Turkish: abet — Artvin

Further reading

  • Bläsing, Uwe (2015) “Georgische Gewächse auf türkischer Erde: Ein Beitrag zur Phytonomie in Nordostanatolien”, in Uwe Bläsing, Victoria Arakelova and Matthias Weinreich, editors, Studies on Iran and the Caucasus: In honour of Garnik Asatrian (in German), Leiden: Brill, →DOI, pages 256–260
  • Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 43, reconstructs Proto-Kartvelian
  • Klimov, G. A. (1985) “Дополнения к этимологическому словарю картвельских языков. II [Additions to the Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages. II]”, in Этимология‎[1] (in Russian), number 1983, Moscow: Nauka, page 168 of 166–179, discards the aforementioned reconstruction
  • Marr, N. (1918) “Яфетические элементы в языках Армении. X [Japhethic Elements in the Languages of Armenia. X]”, in Известия Российской Академии Наук. VI серия‎[2] (in Russian), volume 12, number 6, page 339 of 317–348, derives from the root underlying Svan ლი-ბიდ (li-bid), მჷ-ბიდ (mə-bid, “combustible”), ლი-ბდ-ინ-ე (li-bd-in-e, “to set on fire”) (see Proto-Kartvelian *bdw-)
  • Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “აბედი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary, London: Garnett Press
  • Starostin, S. A. (2005) “*abed-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages

Mingrelian

Noun

აბედი • (abedi)

  1. alternative form of ობედი (obedi)
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