ბერძენი

Georgian

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ბერძენი

Alternative forms

ბერზენი (berzeni)^[1]

Etymology

Attested as Old Georgian ბერძე-ნ-ნი (berʒe-n-ni, “Greeks”), ბერძლ (berʒl, “in Greek”), ბერძული (berʒuli, “Greek”, adjective),^[2] whence also dialectal Gurian ბერძულაი (berʒulai, “(Greek) nut”). Cognate with Mingrelian ბერზენი (berzeni, “Greek person”). Transliterated as Բերձեան-ք (Berjean-kʻ, “Byzantines; the Byzantine Empire”) in the Armenian translation of the The Georgian Chronicles.

Of uncertain origin. The hypotheses include the following:

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Βυζάντιον (Buzántion, “Byzantium”), with uncertain sound changes.^[3]
From ბრძენი (brʒeni, “wise, sage”). Possibly from the notion that philosophy was born in Greece.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [b̥eɾd͡zeni]
Hyphenation: ბერ‧ძე‧ნი

Noun

ბერძენი • (berʒeni) (plural ბერძნები)

Greek person

Derived terms

საბერძნეთი (saberʒneti, “Greece”)

Descendants

→ Abkhaz: а-бырзе́н (a-bərzén)^[7] (or from the Mingrelian cognate)^[8]
→ Armenian: բերզեն (berzen), բերձեն (berjen), բերձին (berjin)^[9]
→ Bats: ბერძა (berʒa)^[10]
→ Ossetian: бердзе́н (berʒén)^[11]
→ Svan: ბერზენ (berzen), ბერზემ (berzem), ბერძენ (berʒen), ბერძემ (berʒem) (or from the Mingrelian cognate)
→ Udi: бердзен-ун (berʒen-un)^[3]

References

^ Paolini, Stefano (1629) “ბერზენი”, in Dittionario giorgiano e italiano, Rome: Stampa della Sagra Congr. de Propag. Fide, page 10a
^ Abulaʒe, Ilia (2014) “ბერძენი”, in Ʒvelkartuli-ʒvelsomxuri doḳumenṭirebuli leksiḳoni [Old Georgian – Old Armenian Documentary Dictionary], Tbilisi: National Centre of Manuscripts, →ISBN, page 74b
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^ Rapp, Stephen H. (1997) Imagining History at the Crossroads: Persia, Byzantium, and the Architects of the Written Georgian Past (in two volumes), PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, page 207, footnote 261
^ Rapp, Stephen H. (2003) Studies in Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts and Eurasian Contexts (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium; 601. Subsidia; 113), Leuven: Peeters, page 421, footnote 22
^ Kamusella, Tomasz (2009) The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, page 258
^ Бгажба, Х. С. (1964) Бзыбский диалект абхазского языка [The Bzyb Dialect of Abkhaz]‎^[1], Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 112
^ Gamaxarija Dž. et al., editors (2009), Abxazija: S drevnejšix vremen do našix dnej [Abkhazia: From Ancient Times Till the Present Days] (Očerki iz istorii Gruzii)‎^[2] (in Russian), Tbilisi: Intelekti, page 273
^ Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “բերզեն”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 188a
^ Schiefner, Anton (1856) Versuch über die Thusch-Sprache oder die khistische Mundart in Thuschetien (in German), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 145a
^ Abajev, V. I. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 260a

Mingrelian

Noun

ბერძენი • (berʒeni)

Alternative form of ბერზენი (berzeni)

[1] Paolini, Stefano (1629) “ბერზენი”, in Dittionario giorgiano e italiano, Rome: Stampa della Sagra Congr. de Propag. Fide, page 10a

[2] Abulaʒe, Ilia (2014) “ბერძენი”, in Ʒvelkartuli-ʒvelsomxuri doḳumenṭirebuli leksiḳoni [Old Georgian – Old Armenian Documentary Dictionary], Tbilisi: National Centre of Manuscripts, →ISBN, page 74b

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[4] Rapp, Stephen H. (1997) Imagining History at the Crossroads: Persia, Byzantium, and the Architects of the Written Georgian Past (in two volumes), PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, page 207, footnote 261

[5] Rapp, Stephen H. (2003) Studies in Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts and Eurasian Contexts (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium; 601. Subsidia; 113), Leuven: Peeters, page 421, footnote 22

[6] Kamusella, Tomasz (2009) The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, page 258

[7] Бгажба, Х. С. (1964) Бзыбский диалект абхазского языка [The Bzyb Dialect of Abkhaz]‎^[1], Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 112

[8] Gamaxarija Dž. et al., editors (2009), Abxazija: S drevnejšix vremen do našix dnej [Abkhazia: From Ancient Times Till the Present Days] (Očerki iz istorii Gruzii)‎^[2] (in Russian), Tbilisi: Intelekti, page 273

[9] Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “բերզեն”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 188a

[10] Schiefner, Anton (1856) Versuch über die Thusch-Sprache oder die khistische Mundart in Thuschetien (in German), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 145a

[11] Abajev, V. I. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 260a

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Mingrelian

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