სალი

Georgian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sali]
  • Hyphenation: სა‧ლი

Etymology 1

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *sal-, cognate with Mingrelian სოლი (soli).[1][2]

Adjective

სალი • (sali) (comparative უფრო სალი, superlative ყველაზე სალი)

  1. steep
  2. (figuratively) solid, strong, unyielding
  3. solid
Declension
Adjectival declension of სალი
case adjective
nominative, genitive,
instrumental 		სალი (sali)
ergative სალმა (salma)
dative, adverbial სალ (sal)
vocative სალო (salo)
Synonyms
Descendants
  • → Mingrelian: ლასარი (lasari)

References

  1. ^ Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 162
  2. ^ Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 359

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սալ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 155–156, derives from Old Armenian սալ (sal, “anvil”).

Etymology 2

Proper noun

სალი • (sali)

  1. a female given name, short for სალომე (salome)
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