ლეზვი

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *lez₁w-. Cognate with Mingrelian ლეჟვა (ležva) and Laz ლეჟვერა (lejvera).

Ačaṙean derives from Old Armenian լիզեմ (lizem, “to lick”) (root *լէզ- (*lēz-)), but Klimov remarks that the connection with Armenian is “difficult to accept”.

• IPA^(key): /lezvi/, [lezʷi]
• Hyphenation: ლეზ‧ვი

ლეზვი • (lezvi) (plural ლეზვები)

1. saliva

• ნერწყვი (nerc̣q̇vi)
• დორბლი (dorbli)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “լէզ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 278b
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 108
• Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 304
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 267
• Čubinašvili, Niḳo (1812–1825) “ლეზვი”, in Kartuli leksiḳoni rusulis targamaniturt [Georgian Explanatory Dictionary with Russian Commentaries]‎, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences