Browsing by Author "Pachulia, Levan"

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    George Ellis’s 130 English Words and Their Equivalents in Caucasian Languages (Evidence from his 18th c. book)
    (National Aviation University, 2021-04) Kikvidze, Zaal; Pachulia, Levan
    In the present paper we describe the lexicographic segment of George Ellisřs book Memoir of a Map of the Countries Comprehended Between the Black Sea and the Caspian; with an Account of the Caucasian Nations, and Vocabularies of Their Languages (1788). The final part of the book provides specimina of Caucasian languages. This lexicographic segment is divided into six tables. The English wordlist consists of 130 items; they are translated into various Caucasian languages (more exactly, languages of the Caucasus). This is the earliest English-Caucasian lexicographic resource.
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    Laz Lexical Data from D.R. Peacock’s Collection: Representation, Reflections, Translation
    (National Aviation University, 2020-04) Kikvidze, Zaal; Pachulia, Levan
    The paper is a discussion of the Laz lexical data contained in D.R. Peacock’s lexicographic collection “Original Vocabularies of Five West Caucasian Languages”, in which English headwords are accompanied by their translations in Georgian, Megrelian, Laz, Svan, and Abkhazian. Laz is the most under-resourced Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language; therefore, Laz data, available in various, particularly, so far thoroughly unexamined sources, can serve as a valuable contribution to its representativeness. Hence, in order to fill in the gap, we provide a description of the lexical part of the collection in question and reflections of some following students of the Laz language.