იოლი

Georgian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ioli]
  • Hyphenation: იო‧ლი

Etymology 1

Adjective

იოლი • (ioli) (comparative უფრო იოლი, superlative ყველაზე იოლი)

  1. easy
Declension
Adjectival declension of იოლი
case adjective
nominative, genitive,
instrumental
იოლი (ioli)
ergative იოლმა (iolma)
dative, adverbial იოლ (iol)
vocative იოლო (iolo)

Etymology 2

From Dutch jol.

Noun

იოლი • (ioli) (plural იოლები)

  1. yawl

Mingrelian

Alternative forms

  • იოი (ioi)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *ial- (pontic azalea). Cognate with Georgian იელი (ieli).[1][2] Doublet of იბლი (ibli). See also Svan ჰად-რა (had-ra, pontic azalea).

Noun

იოლი • (ioli) (plural იოლეფი)

  1. yellow azalea, honeysuckle azalea, pontic azalea (Rhododendron luteum)

See also

References

  1. ^ Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, page 423
  2. ^ Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 213

Further reading

  • Kipšidze, Iosif (1914) “იოლი”, in Грамматика мингрельского (иверского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 7)‎[1] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 248b

Etymology 2

From Georgian იოლი (ioli).

Adjective

იოლი • (ioli)

  1. easy

Further reading

  • Kajaia, Otar (2005) “იოლი”, in Megrul-kartuli leksiḳoni [Mingrelian–Georgian Dictionary], online version prepared by Joost Gippert, Frankfurt am Main, published 2001–2004, page 644