ორბი

Georgian

Etymology

From Old Georgian ორბი (orbi, “eagle”).

Noun

ორბი • (orbi) (plural ორბები)

  1. vulture

Descendants
  • → Mingrelian: ობრი (obri, “vulture”)

See also

Old Georgian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Kartvelian *orb- (“eagle”) and cognate with Svan უ̂ერბ (ûerb, “eagle”).[1][2][3]

This native word for "eagle" later shifted its meaning to "vulture", being displaced in the first sense by the Armenism არწივი (arc̣ivi).[4][5]

Noun

ორბი • (orbi)

  1. eagle
    Synonym: არწივი (arc̣ivi)

Descendants
  • Georgian: ორბი (orbi, “vulture”)
    • → Mingrelian: ობრი (obri, “vulture”)
  • → Proto-Abkhaz-Abaza: *wárba (“kite, eagle”)
    • Abaza: уа́рба (wárba, “eagle”)
    • Abkhaz: а-уа́рба (a-wárba, “kite”)
    • →⇒ Ubykh: уарыб-жәы (warəb-ẑʷə, “vulture”, literally “old eagle”)

References
  1. Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 150
  2. Holst, Jan Henrik (2014) Sanische historische Lautlehre (in German), Aachen: Shaker Verlag, →ISBN, pages 63–64
  3. Fähnrich, Heinz (2016) Die Kartwelier: Grundsprache, Kultur, Lebensraum (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, pages 109, 297
  4. Klimov, G. A. (1993) “Еще одно свидетельство пребывания арийцев в Передней Азии [New evidence on the residence of the Aryans in Asia Minor]”, in Вопросы языкознания‎ (in Russian), number 4, page 35, footnote 4 of 29–37
  5. Rayfield, Donald (1996) “Georgian ornithonyms, with Armenian and Caucasian parallels”, in Annual of Armenian linguistics‎, volume 17, page 4 of 1–10

Further reading
  • Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “ორბი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎ (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 333
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