გვიმრა

Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan; reconstructions vary by source (*gwimra- by Klimov, *gwim- by Fähnrich). Cognate with Mingrelian გვიმორა (gvimora).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡvimra/, [ɡ̊ʷimɾa]
  • Hyphenation: გვიმ‧რა

Noun

გვიმრა • (gvimra) (plural გვიმრები)

  1. fern

Inflection

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Descendants

  • Mingrelian: გვიმარა (gvimara), გუიმარა (guimara), გუმარა (gumara)
  • Svan: გუ̂იმბრა (gûimbra)

See also

References

  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 29
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 105
  • 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 143
  • Maq̇ašvili, Aleksandre (1961) “http://www.nplg.gov.ge/gwdict/index.php?a%3Dterm&d%3D11&t%3D737”, in Boṭaniḳuri leksiḳoni [Botanical Dictionary], 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Sabč̣ota Sakartvelo
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