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ფქვილი

ფქვილი

Georgian

ფქვილი

Noun

ფქვილი (pkvili) (uncountable)

  1. flour

Inflection

Derived terms

  • მჭადის ფქვილი (mč̣adis pkvili)
  • პურის ფქვილი (ṗuris pkvili)

Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *pkw-il-, from suffixing the Proto-Kartvelian *pek-, *pk- (to grind), whence also Svan ფექ (pek).

Noun

ფქვილი (pkvili)

  1. flour
  2. millstone

Descendants

References

  • Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 208
  • abulaʒe, ilia (1973), ფქვილი”, in ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 449
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 434
  • 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 465
  • Starostin, S. A. (2005), *pek- / pk-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages