ცხჳრი

Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *c₁xwir-. It has also been suggested that the term is related to რცხვენა (rcxvena), შერცხვენილი (šercxvenili, “ashamed”) due to phonetic and semantic connections.

Noun

ცხჳრი • (cxwiri)

  1. nose
  2. snout, muzzle

Descendants

References
  • Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 275
  • 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 604
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 584
  • abulaʒe, ilia (1973), “ცხჳრი”, in ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 522
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