ნიკარტი

Georgian

Etymology

See ნიკარტი (niḳarṭi).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nikʼartʼi/, [nikʼaɾtʼi]
  • Hyphenation: ნი‧კარ‧ტი

Noun

ნიკარტი • (niḳarṭi) (plural ნიკარტები)

  1. Imereti form of ნისკარტი (nisḳarṭi, beak)
  2. (Chveneburi) nose

Inflection

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Derived terms

  • ნიკარტა (niḳarṭa, big-nosed), ცხვირნიკატა (cxvirniḳaṭa) (Chveneburi)

Further reading

  • ნიკარტი”, in Imeruli leksiḳoni [Imeretian Dictionary] (in Georgian), Kartuli dialekṭuri ḳorṗusi, 2006–2009
  • ნიკარტი”, in Čveneburebis kartuli leksiḳoni [Dictionary of Chveneburi Georgian] (in Georgian), Kartuli dialekṭuri ḳorṗusi, 2011–2014

Old Georgian

Etymology

By surface analysis, ნი- (ni-) + კარტი (ḳarṭi); cognate with Svan ნიკრა̈ტ (niḳräṭ). For the prefix, see *ni-.

According to Klimov, from Proto-Kartvelian *ni-(s)ḳrṭ- (beak), from Proto-Kartvelian *ḳrṭ- (to pluck, peck).

Noun

ნიკარტი • (niḳarṭi)

  1. beak

Descendants

References

  • Klimov, G. A. (1964) “*ni-ḳarṭ-”, in Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 148
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*ni-(s)ḳrṭ-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 143

Further reading

  • Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2001) “ნიკარტი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni [Dictionary of Old Georgian] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: University Press, page 164a
  • Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “ნიკარტი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 915a
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 255–256
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