ბერი პოლისემანტიკური სიტყვაა და აღნიშნავს: 1. ხანდაზმულ ადამიანს; 2. მონაზონს; 3. ვაჟიშვილს; 4. ჩვილს; 5. ხატისათვის შეთქმულ ბავშვს.
rendering, not the wording of the record
Beri is a polysemous word and denotes: 1. an elderly person; 2. a monk; 3. a son; 4. an infant; 5. a child vowed to an icon (khati).
Claims
- B-001 A restates
The root ბერი is polysemous. Abuladze's Old Georgian dictionary (1973) glosses it 'elderly person' and 'monk'; ქეგლ (2008) gives 'old person' and 'member of a monastic brotherhood'. Scholars add 'son, boy' (Javakhishvili 1937; cf. Laz ბერე), 'infant' (Marr), a son vowed as a ბერი when children were ill or dying (Koberidze 2023), and in Kartli a newborn called ბერი until its first year (Bardavelidze 1947, via Koberidze 2024). The 'son' sense is the one tied to ბერიძე.
- B-303 refuted contradicts
"Beri = bear"; "-dze is Ossetian"; an Ossetian migration (famiry.ru)
All three contradict every Georgian source. Russian Wiktionary more honestly leaves the etymology blank.
Beridze, a history of the surname · Passage A.4 · beridze.info/en/passages/a-04 · Source: https://yearbook.openjournals.ge/index.php/kly/article/download/9390/9278/16139 (accessed 2026-10-01)a-04 · last updated 2026-10-01 · send a correction