Georgian

Noun

ფუტურო • ‎(puṭuro) ‎(plural ფუტუროები)

1. (obsolete) hollow (in a tree)
2. rotten tree

Usage notes

ფუღურო ‎(puɣuro) is used in modern Georgian.

Synonyms

• ფუღურო ‎(puɣuro)

Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *puṭuro-. Klimov further compares Proto-Indo-European *pū̆-tro- ‎(“rotten”) (with reflexes in Italic and Celtic), from the root *pū̆- ‎(“to stink, rot”), implying a borrowing from Indo-European. He notes that a borrowing from the Latin descendant puter, putris ‎(“rotten”) of that root is unlikely. The Indo-European comparison is rejected by Starostin, who derives from Proto-Kartvelian *paṭ-, *puṭ- ‎(“hollow in tree; hollow (adj.); to hollow”).

According to Ačaṙean, the borrowing is from Armenian փուտ ‎(pʿut, “rottenness; rotten”), another reflex of the same Proto-Indo-European root.

Noun

ფუტურო • ‎(puṭuro)

1. hollow (in a tree)
2. rotten tree

Synonyms

• ფუღურო ‎(puɣuro)

References

• Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 207
• Klimov, G. A. (1994) Drevnejšije indojevropeizmy kartvelʹskix jazykov [The Oldest Indo-Europeanisms in Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Nasledie, ISBN 5-201-13217-0, pages 145–147
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “փուտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 527b
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 848f
• "*puṭ-" in online database compiled by Sergei Starostin.