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გზა

გზა

Georgian

გზა

Noun

გზა (gza) (plural გზები)

  1. way, path, road

Inflection

Derived terms


Laz

Etymology

From Proto-Kartvelian *gz-. Cognate with Mingrelian ზა (za), Georgian გზა (gza) and Svan ლიზი (lizi, to go).

Noun

გზა (gza)

  1. road

References

  • Klimov, Georgij A. (1998), “*gza-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 30
  • Marr, N. (1910), გზა”, in Grammatika čanskago (lazskago) jazyka s xrestomatijeju i slovarem [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Materialy po jafetičeskomu jazykoznaniju; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 134b
  • 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 144
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 106