წიწილა

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Georgian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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Particularly: “What about Bats წიწილ (c̣ic̣il)?”

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /t͡sʼit͡sʼila/, [t͡sʼit͡sʼiɫa]
  • Hyphenation: წი‧წი‧ლა

Noun[edit]

წიწილა (c̣ic̣ila) (plural წიწილები)

  1. A young chicken: chick

Inflection[edit]

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Laz[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *c̣ic̣il- (young snake), likely a reduplication of *c̣il-. Cognate with Georgian წიწილი (c̣ic̣ili), წიწილა (c̣ic̣ila).

Noun[edit]

წიწილა (ǯiǯila) (plural წიწილაფე)

  1. snake

References[edit]

  • Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 347
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 296
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 625