Georgian

Verbal noun

კრვა • ‎(ḳrva) ‎(plural კრვები)

1. Nonstandard form of კვრა ‎(ḳvra).

Related terms

• მოკრვა ‎(moḳrva)
• მიკრვა ‎(miḳrva)
• ნაკრავი ‎(naḳravi)
• მოკრივე ‎(moḳrive)

Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *ḳar- ‎(“to strike”), *ḳr- ‎(“to beat”).

Starostin compares with Proto-Altaic *k`aŕV ‎(“to dig, to beat”) and Proto-Indo-European *kerǝ- ‎(“to mix”).

Ačaṙean derives from Armenian: compare Old Armenian կռուիմ ‎(kṙuim), կռիւ ‎(kṙiw).

Verbal noun

კრვა • ‎(ḳrva)

1. to strike
2. to beat
3. to push

Descendants

• Georgian: კრვა ‎(ḳrva)

References

• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 221
• 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 264
• Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 86
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “կռիւ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935
• Starostin, S. A. (2005), “*ḳar- / ḳr-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages