Etymograph

English

Gori

Gori comes from Georgian გორი, and goes back to Old Georgian გორი.

  1. Old Georgianmodernგორი
  2. Georgianmodernsame formgori
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1613Gori

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Georgianmodernგორი
  2. Georgianmodernsame formgori
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1613Gori

Earliest quotation: 1613, Samuel Purchas, [Asia.] Of Armenia Maior, and Georgia: and the neighbouring : “The Georgians (girt in with two mightie aduerſaries, the…”

Another origin of Gori

  1. Italianc. 1300–presentGori
  2. Englishtodaysame form

Today it means

name A city in eastern Georgia, the regional capital of the Shida Kartli region.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old Georgian გორი / Gori