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sudiya

a word from vocabulary Bezhta by Bernard Comrie and Madzhid Khalilov

Word form	sudiya
LWT meaning(s)	the judge
Word meaning	judge
Comments on word	Has virtually replaced q’adi, a loan from Georgian, ultimately from Arabic
Analyzability	unanalyzable
Age	Russian [15] (1900–2007)

Borrowed status	1. clearly borrowed
Source words	sud´ja 'judge' Russian
Effect	Replacement
Salience	Present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation	Russian as lingua franca [15]