კაკაბი

Georgian

კაკაბი

Etymology

From Old Georgian [Term?], from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ḳaḳab-,[1][2] considered onomatopoeic by Starostin.[3] Cognate with Mingrelian კოკობე (ḳoḳobe).

According to Ačaṙean, together with Bats კაკაბ (ḳaḳab) borrowed from Ancient Greek κακκάβη (kakkábē),[4] but because the word is reconstructible for the Georgian-Zan period, this is ruled out by Klimov[1], who derived it from an unspecified old Indo-European antecedent, reflected in Ancient Greek κακκάβη (kakkábē), Old Armenian կաքաւ (kakʿaw), Persian کبک (kabk), Hittite [script needed] (kakkapa).[5] This etymology, however, is considered unlikely by Starostin, because it is difficult to reconstruct a common Proto-Indo-European form for these words.[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʼɑkʼɑbi/
  • Hyphenation: კა‧კა‧ბი

Noun

კაკაბი (ḳaḳabi) (plural კაკბები)

  1. partridge

Inflection

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Descendants

  • Bats: კაკაბ (ḳaḳab)

References

  1. Klimov, Georgij A. (1998), “*ḳaḳab-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 85
  2. Fähnrich, Heinz (2007), “*ḳaḳab-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 219
  3. Starostin, online database
  4. Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), կաքաւ”, 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 564a
  5. Klimov, G. A. (1994) Drevnejšije indojevropeizmy kartvelʹskix jazykov [The Oldest Indo-Europeanisms in Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Nasledie, →ISBN, pages 116-118
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