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Etymology
Attested only once in the translation of Physiologus.

Marr, unaware of the Kartvelian origin of the obscure, supposed that represented a partial calque of  thus considering  to be a miswriting of  and corrupting the phrase to. This incorrect assumption was accepted by other scholars and henceforth copied into other dictionaries of Old Georgian.

Marr's theory however was rejected by Gigineišvili, according to whom a miswriting of instead of  is hard to accept due to the fact that  and  don't look similar in any of the alphabets (cf., Ⴋ against Ⴖ in Asomtavruli, ⴋ against ⴖ in Nuskhuri). Furthermore he notices the relationship of with 🇨🇬, for which he reconstructs, thus making the need to change text in anyway obsolete. Accepted by Fähnrich and Klimov.

Noun

 * 1) rat