Linguistics

K. Kakitadze

Towards the Meaning Development of the Lexem baga in Georgian Language

Development of languages, like the cultures, is the process of both possible changes and strengthening of an old status of languages. This is the case when the new is based on the old and strengthens the latter. The history of different languages shows that the new and old are permanently interrelated. New words of given epoch are less frequently met in the lexic, then words with new meanings and in new sentences. Therefore, this kind of old appears in the language as new. One of the examples of this kind of usage is the lexem baga in Georgian, that in old Georgian meant shelter and feeding place for livestock and in modern language its meaning is connected to kindergarten.

 

A. Chikoibava Institute of Linguistics of the Georgian Academy of Sciences

Contents