ერკინა

Laz

Etymology

Presumably inherited from Proto-Georgian-Zan *rḳina- (“iron”); see there for more.

Noun

ერკინა • (erḳina)

  1. iron

Usage notes

The existence of the word in Laz has been put into doubt by Marr, whose interviewees did not recognize it.

Synonyms
  • დემირი (demiri)

References
  • Adjarian, H. (1898), “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 231
  • Erckert, Roderich von (1895) Die Sprachen des kaukasischen Stammes. I. Theil. Wörterverzeichniss (in German), Vienna: Alfred Hölder, § 103, page 57
  • Klaproth, Julius (1823) Asia polyglotta, Paris: A. Schubart, page 122a
  • Klimov, G. A. (1964) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kartvelʹskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences, pages 156–157
  • Marr, N. (1910), “ე-რკინა”, in Grammatika čanskago (lazskago) jazyka s xrestomatijeju i slovarem [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Materialy po jafetičeskomu jazykoznaniju; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 182b
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