FELUCCA

Did you know that the famous Egyptian sailing boat, the felucca, has an almost identical counterpart in Megrelia"ფილუკა" (philuka)? The Megrelian "philuka" clearly consists of the diminutive suffix "-uka" added to the root "phili", which, among other meanings, refers to a wooden mortar (ფილი).



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