խիւս

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Armenian

Etymology

A loan from a Kartvelian cognate of Svan ᲰᲔᲳᲡ (“breakfast”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /χifs/, [χifs]
(Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /χifs/, [χifs]

Noun

խիւս • (xiws)

porridge, gruel

References

^ Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎^[1], PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 58

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