სენაკი

Georgian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Georgian სენაკი (senaḳi) (which later developed into სენაჲ (senay)), together with Old Armenian սենեակ (seneak) borrowed from Iranian. Cognate with Mingrelian სანაკი (sanaḳi). Doublet of სენა (sena).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [senakʼi]
  • Hyphenation: სე‧ნა‧კი

Noun

სენაკი • (senaḳi) (plural სენაკები)

  1. (dated, Christianity) small chamber (for priests, nuns and others)

Proper noun

სენაკი • (senaḳi)

  1. Senaki (a city in Georgia)

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սենեակ”, 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, page 201ab
  • Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1966) Narḳvevebi iranul-kartuli enobrivi urtiertobidan I [Studies in Iranian–Georgian Linguistic Contacts I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, pages 368–369
  • Gippert, Jost (1993) Iranica Armeno-Iberica: Studien zu den iranischen Lehnwörtern im Armenischen und Georgischen (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte; 606. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Iranistik; 26)‎[1] (in German), volume I, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 229–235
  • Rapp, Stephen H. (2014) The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature, Ashgate Publishing, page 59
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