ფისი

Georgian

Etymology

From Old Georgian ფისი (pisi). See it for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰisi/
• Hyphenation: ფი‧სი

Noun

ფისი • (pisi) (uncountable)

1. resin, gum
2. tar, pitch

Declension

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Declension of ფისი (see Georgian declension)

	singular	plural	archaic plural
nominative	ფისი (pisi)
ergative	ფისმა (pisma)
dative	ფისს(ა) (piss(a))
genitive	ფისის(ა) (pisis(a))
instrumental	ფისით(ა) (pisit(a))
adverbial	ფისად(ა) (pisad(a))
vocative	ფისო (piso)
Notes: archaic plurals might not exist.

Postpositional inflection of ფისი (see Georgian postpositions)

postpositions taking a dative case	singular	plural
-ზე (on - )	ფისზე (pisze)
-თან (near - )	ფისთან (pistan)
-ში (in - )	ფისში (pisši)
-ვით (like a - )	ფისივით (pisivit)
postpositions taking a genitive case	singular	plural
-თვის (for - )	ფისისთვის (pisistvis)
-ებრ (like a - )	ფისისებრ (pisisebr)
-კენ (towards - )	ფისისკენ (pisisḳen)
-გან (from/of - )	ფისისგან (pisisgan)
postpositions taking an instrumental case	singular	plural
-დან (from / since - )	ფისიდან (pisidan)
-ურთ (together with - )	ფისითურთ (pisiturt)
postpositions taking an adverbial case	singular	plural
-მდე (up to - )	ფისამდე (pisamde)

Descendants

• → Armenian: փիս (pʻis), փիսի (pʻisi)
• → Bats: ფის (pis)
• → Ossetian: писи (pisi), песи (pesi)

Further reading

• Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “ფისი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: Garnett Press

Old Georgian

Etymology

Uncertain. Akin to Mingrelian ფირსა (pirsa), Laz ფისა (pisa), Svan ფისე (pise). Perhaps borrowed from Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa) or some other Indo-European word related to it.

Noun

ფისი • (pisi)

1. resin

   Coordinate terms: ძივთი (ʒivti), გომიზი (gomizi), კევი (ḳevi)

Derived terms

• ფისოვანებაჲ (pisovanebay)
• მოფისვა (mopisva)

Descendants

• Georgian: ფისი (pisi)
  • → Armenian: փիս (pʻis), փիսի (pʻisi)
  • → Bats: ფის (pis)
  • → Ossetian: писи (pisi), песи (pesi)

Further reading

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “ფისი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎^[2] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 445b
• Abajev, V. I. (1973) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 242
• Bielmeier, Roland (1994) “Sprachkontakte nördlich und südlich des Kaukasus”, in Roland Bielmeier, Reinhard Stempel, editors, Indogermanica et Caucasica: Festschrift für Karl Horst Schmidt zum 65. Geburtstag (in German), Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, page 442 of 427–446
• Klimov, G. A. (1970) “О некоторых словарных общностях картвельских и нахско-дагестанских языков [On some common vocabulary in Kartvelian and Nakh-Daghestanian languages]”, in Этимология‎^[3], Moscow: Nauka, page 355 of 349–355
• Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “ფისი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1257b