Laz Lexical Data from D.R. Peacock’s Collection: Representation, Reflections, Translation

Abstract

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.