ცხვენი
Mingrelian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Georgian-Zan *sqwen- (“ceiling, roof”). Cognates include Georgian სხვენი (sxveni).
Noun
ცხვენი • (cxveni)
Descendants
- Armenian: ցխինք (cʻxinkʻ)
References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ձեղուն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
- Kipšidze, Iosif (1914) “ცხვენი”, in Грамматика мингрельского (иверского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 7)[1] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 431