შენი

Georgian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɛni/
  • Hyphenation: შე‧ნი

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Kartvelian *š(w)en-, whence also შენ (šen).

Pronoun

შენი (šeni)

  1. your (singular), yours
    შენს საქმეს მიხედე
    šens sakmes mixede
    mind your own business
Inflection
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Derived terms

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Etymology 2

From Middle Iranian *šēn (habitation), according to Ačaṙean mediated via Old Armenian շէն (šēn).

Noun

შენი (šeni) (plural შენები)

  1. village
See also

Adjective

შენი • (šeni) (comparative უფრო შენი, superlative ყველაზე შენი)

  1. inhabited
Synonyms

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), շէն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Klimov, G. A.; Xalilov, M. Š. (2003) Slovarʹ kavkazskix jazykov. Sopostavlenije osnovnoj leksiki [Dictionary of Caucasian Languages. A comparison of the Basic Vocabulary] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, ISBN 5-02-018283-4, page 500
  • Čubinov, David (1887), შენი”, in Gruzinsko-russkij slovarʹ [Georgian–Russian Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
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