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It was produced from 1950 until 1964, and about 150 scientists worked on it. It was the first Georgian dictionary which had a systematic documentation for each word. The words are arranged alphabetically. The first volume contains a brief description of the grammar of Georgian. [1]
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Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms.
Georgian (ქართული ენა, kartuli ena, pronounced [ˈkʰartʰuli ˈena]) is the most widely spoken Kartvelian language.It is the official language of Georgia and the native or primary language of 88% of its population. [2]
Mingrelian is generally written in the Georgian alphabet, but it has no written standard or official status. Almost all speakers are bilingual; they use Mingrelian mainly for familiar and informal conversation, and Georgian (or, for expatriate speakers, the local official language) for other purposes.
Georgian syntax and verb agreement are largely those of a nominative–accusative language.That is, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subject of a transitive verb are treated alike when it comes to word order within the sentence, and agreement marks in the verb complex.
Example of the declension of noun stem კოჩ- (ǩoç-“man”) in comparison to corresponding Laz კოჩ- (ǩoç-), Georgian კაც- (kʼats-) and Svan č'äš (“husband”) forms. Note that Laz does not index adverbial and benefactive cases through suffixes , neither do Georgian nor Svan index the lative or ablative .
Georgian has four classes of verbs: transitive, intransitive, medial and indirect verbs. [1] Each class has its own set of rules of conjugation for all screeves (counterpart of tense-aspect-moods). [2] However, numerous verbs in Georgian do not conform to the conjugation of a single class (see irregular verbs below). Preverb. Although preverbs ...