კეთილი

Georgian

Etymology

From Old Georgian კეთილი (ḳetili), from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ḳet-. Cognates include Mingrelian კათუა (ḳatua). The term is of the same origin as კეთება (ḳeteba, to make).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʼɛtʰili/

Adjective

კეთილი • (ḳetili) (comparative უფრო კეთილი, superlative ყველაზე კეთილი)

  1. goodhearted, kind
    კეთილი ზრახვები
    good faith

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Derived terms

Interjection

კეთილი (ḳetili)

  1. OK

Synonyms


Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *ḳet- (to add, mix).

Adjective

კეთილი (ḳetili)

  1. kind, goodhearted
  2. charitable

Synonyms

Descendants

References

  • 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 267
  • Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 88
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 226
  • abulaʒe, ilia (1973), კეთილი”, in ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 195
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