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bilby commented on the word შემ�?გევლე!
Georgian (pronunciation: g-e-na-tsval-e! - 'I encircled you', functionally something similar to ‘My dear!’
The site notes helpfully, "Some terms of endearment are very common in Georgian, but should not be used by learners unfamiliar with their social contexts."
October 1, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word შემ�?გევლე!
...that says "shemogevle". It's probably a verb and I have no idea what it means because Georgian verbs have augments from hell.
October 1, 2009
bilby commented on the word შემ�?გევლე!
Ah, spot on Milos, I copied the wrong transliteration. Hence:
გენ�?ცვ�?ლე!
g-e-na-tsval-e!
I substituted for you
‘My dear! Darling!’
შემ�?გევლე!
she+mo-g-e-vl-e!
I encircled you
‘My dear!’
October 1, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word შემ�?გევლე!
See, these are verbs; Georgians have the idea to use one verb to tell you absolutely everything. And apparently they can now be colloquial for endearment. Great.
They've conveniently split up the verb parts for you (not the syllables)...you'll see that the root for genatsvale is 'tsval' and the root for shemogevle is 'vl'. Everything else is there to tell you mood, tense, and person. Really the only thing I know is that the g means that something's happening about the second person. It could be active or passive; one of the other letters controls that. The 'she' probably also refers to the second person but I don't even know why. I don't know the screeve system at all, but depending whether you want to be present, imperfect, conditional, perfect, pluperfect, aorist, optative, future, subjunctive (present, future, or perfect) the modifying letters are all different -- and that's not even getting into preverbs, pronominal markers, ergativity (which messes with the noun cases) or verbs of motion; and perish the thought if you want to have a participle or gerund because there are new formants and augments for all of those.
Seriously. I can work with Georgian nouns. But throw a verb at me and I probably won't even be able to find the root.
October 1, 2009
reesetee commented on the word შემ�?გევლე!
Still--it sure is pretty. :-)
October 1, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word შემ�?გევლე!
Had a brief interaction on Facebook today with my old host mother which ended with her calling me genacvale. I was pleased to know what she meant.
October 12, 2009