շոլտի

Armenian

Etymology

From Georgian შოლტი (šolṭi). Probably a doublet of շերտ (šert).

Pronunciation

Noun

շոլտի • (šolti) (Tbilisi, Ghazakh, Ganja, Kotayk (village))

  1. long whip
    Synonym: մտրակ (mtrak)

Declension

Derived terms

  • շոլտել (šoltel)
  • շոլտիկ (šoltik, a long strip knitted by girls to learn the art of knitting)

Further reading

  • Aṙakʻelyan, V. D. (1979) “Baṙakʻnnakan ditoġutʻyunner [Lexico-semantic Observations]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal] (in Armenian), number 4, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 39 of 35–45, connecting with Old Armenian ջալոտ (ǰalot)
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2007), “շոլտի”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 267a
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