ყჳნი

Old Georgian

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *q̇win- (“temple, forehead (?)”).

Noun

ყჳნი • (q̇wini)

1. forehead

   Synonym: შუბლი (šubli)

Descendants

• ⇒ Georgian: ყვინია (q̇vinia, “with prominent forehead”) (Racha)

Further reading

• Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, pages 271–272
• Čuxua, Merab (2019) Manana Mač̣avariani, Manana Buḳia, editors, Georgian–Circassian–Apkhazian Etymological Dictionary (expanded edition)‎^[1], Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 484
• Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “ყჳნი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1313a