ლეზვი

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *lez₁w-. Cognate with Mingrelian ლეჟვა (ležva) and Laz ლეჟვერა (ležvera).

Ačaṙean derives from Old Armenian լիզեմ (lizem, “to lick”) (root *լէզ- (*lēz-)), but Klimov remarks that the connection with Armenian is “difficult to accept”.

• IPA^(key): /lɛzvi/
• Hyphenation: ლეზ‧ვი

ლეზვი • (lezvi) (plural ლეზვები)

1. saliva

• ნერწყვი (nerc̣q̇vi)
• დორბლი (dorbli)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “լէզ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 278b
• Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 108
• penrixi (Fähnrich), hainc; sarǯvelaʒe, zurab (2000) kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 304
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 267
• čubinašvili, niḳo (1812–1825), “ლეზვი”, in kartuli leksiḳoni rusulis targamaniturt [Georgian Explanatory Dictionary with Russian Commentaries], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences