რკინება

Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *rken-, *rkin- (“to fight, wrestle”). Compare possible relation with Old Georgian რკინაჲ (rḳinay).

Noun

რკინება • (rḳineba)

1. combat, battle

Verbal noun

რკინება • (rḳineba)

1. verbal noun of ერკინება (erḳineba)

Synonyms

• ბრძოლა (brʒola)

Descendants

• Georgian: შერკინება (šerḳineba), რკინება (rḳineba)
• → Mingrelian: რკინაფა (rḳinapa) (possibly)

References

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “რკინება”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎^[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 348
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 159