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კაცი

კაცი

Georgian

Vitruvian Man by Leonardo Da Vinci

Noun

კაცი (ḳaci) (plural კაცები, archaic plural კაცნი)

  1. man
  2. human
  3. (dated, colloquial) husband
  4. (obsolete) messenger, courier

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Pronoun

კაცი (ḳaci)

  1. anyone

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Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Kartvelian *ḳac₁-

Adverb

კაცი (ḳaci)

  1. nobody
    (Asomtavruli): ႩႠႺႫႠႬႺႠ ႬႳ ႳႼႷႨႱ, ႱႠႣႠ ႨႷႥႬႤႧ ႧႵႳႤႬ. (Mkhedruli): კაცმანცა ნუ უწყის, სადა იყვნეთ თქუენ.
    ḳacmanca nu uc̣q̇is, sada iq̇vnet tkuen.
    Nobody knows where you were.

Noun

კაცი (ḳaci) (plural კაცნი)

  1. man
  2. human
  3. husband
  4. used as a unit of measurement (implying the height of an average man).

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Descendants

References

  • penrixi (Fähnrich), hainc; sarǯvelaʒe, zurab (2000) kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 265
  • Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 86
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 224
  • abulaʒe, ilia (1973), კაცი”, in ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 193
  • orbeliani, sulxan-saba (1685–1716), iordanišvili s., editor, siṭq̇vis ḳona kartuli, romel ars leksiḳoni [The Wisp of Georgian Words That Beeth a Dictionary], Tbilisi: Georgian SSR print, published 1949, page 163