ფისი

Georgian

Etymology

From Old Georgian ფისი (pisi). See it for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pʰisi]
  • Hyphenation: ფი‧სი

Noun

ფისი • (pisi) (uncountable)

  1. resin, gum
  2. tar, pitch

Declension

Declension of ფისი (see Georgian declension)
singular plural archaic plural
nominative ფისი (pisi)
ergative ფისმა (pisma)
dative ფისს(ა) (piss(a))
genitive ფისის(ა) (pisis(a))
instrumental ფისით(ა) (pisit(a)) —
adverbial ფისად(ა) (pisad(a)) —
vocative ფისო (piso)

Notes: archaic plurals might not exist.

Postpositional inflection of ფისი (see Georgian postpositions)
dative-case postpositions singular plural
-ზე (-ze, “on”) ფისზე (pisze)
-თან (-tan, “near”) ფისთან (pistan)
-ში (-ši, “in”) ფისში (pisši)
-ვით (-vit, “like”) ფისივით (pisivit)
genitive-case postpositions singular plural
-თვის (-tvis, “for”) ფისისთვის (pisistvis)
-ებრ (-ebr, “like”) ფისისებრ (pisisebr)
-კენ (-ḳen, “towards”) ფისისკენ (pisisḳen)
-გან (-gan, “from/of”) ფისისგან (pisisgan)
-ადმი (-admi, “in relation to”) ფისისადმი (pisisadmi)
instrumental-case postpositions singular plural
-დან (-dan, “from/since”) ფისიდან (pisidan)
-ურთ (-urt, “together with”) ფისითურთ (pisiturt)
adverbial-case postpositions singular plural
-მდე (-mde, “up to”) ფისამდე (pisamde)

Descendants

  • → Armenian: փիս (pʻis), փիսի (pʻisi)
  • → Bats: ფის (pis)
  • → Ossetian: писи (pisi), песи (pesi)

Further reading

  • Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “ფისი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary‎[1], London: Garnett Press

Old Georgian

Etymology

Uncertain. Akin to Mingrelian ფირსა (pirsa), Laz ფისა (pisa), Svan ფისე (pise). Perhaps borrowed from Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa) or some other Indo-European word related to it.

Noun

ფისი • (pisi)

  1. resin
    Coordinate terms: ძივთი (ʒivti), გომიზი (gomizi), კევი (ḳevi)

Derived terms

  • ფისოვანებაჲ (pisovanebay)
  • მოფისვა (mopisva)

Descendants

  • Georgian: ფისი (pisi)
    • → Armenian: փիս (pʻis), փիսի (pʻisi)
    • → Bats: ფის (pis)
    • → Ossetian: писи (pisi), песи (pesi)

Further reading

  • Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “ფისი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎[2] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 445b
  • Abajev, V. I. (1973) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 242
  • Bielmeier, Roland (1994) “Sprachkontakte nördlich und südlich des Kaukasus”, in Roland Bielmeier, Reinhard Stempel, editors, Indogermanica et Caucasica: Festschrift für Karl Horst Schmidt zum 65. Geburtstag (in German), Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, page 442 of 427–446
  • Klimov, G. A. (1970) “О некоторых словарных общностях картвельских и нахско-дагестанских языков [On some common vocabulary in Kartvelian and Nakh-Daghestanian languages]”, in Этимология‎[3], Moscow: Nauka, page 355 of 349–355
  • Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “ფისი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1257b
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