issues of linguistics - Tbilisi State University

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textum cum apparata critico imprinendum curavitm EBERHARD NESTLE novis curis
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Marine Ivanishvili
The Plant Names in the Georgian New Testament: Nard, Nardion
Summary
The corpus of the plant names in the New Testament is interesting from the point of view
of the derivational forms and culture history. There arise some questions: How are the plant
names presented in the Georgian New testament texts _ by means of translation, borrowing,
derivation/composition, or by means of replacement with similar semantic equivalents? Are
the Proto-Kartvelian roots reflected among the New Testament’s plant names? What
cultural or religious motives are basic for the plant names in the given context? The article
gives answers to the above-mentioned issues and presents the way of the origin and
borrowing of one of the stems from twenty-four plant names of the New Testament texts:
Nard (Nardus) and its oil Nardion (Oleum nardeum). The result of the investigation is
given below:
nard-, nardion-: (MR. 14, 3; I. 12, 3; MR. 14, 3 C): Georgian nardi [nardi]; Greek
na,rdoj, ¹ [nardos]; Latin nardus (f.); Hebrew דּ רנ [nērd]; Armenian ݳñ¹ [nard]; Arabic
ﻦﻳدرﺎﻧ [nāridīn]; English Nard; German Narde (f.); French Nard (m.); Russian нард; In
Persian and Turkish another lexical unit is attested: Persian ﻞﺒﻨﺳ [sombol]; Turkish hintsümbülü.
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