ақәны
Abkhaz
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Abkhaz-Abaza *akʷənə́ (“flax”). Compare Ossetian гӕн (gæn), Svan ქან (kan).[1][2] Ultimately from the same source of Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis).
Noun
[edit]а-қәны́ • (a-kʷnə́)
References
[edit]- ^ Tuite, Kevin (1997) Svan (Languages of the World, Materials; 139)[1], Munich: LINCOM-Europa, →ISBN, page 9
- ^ Abajev, V. I. (1949) Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I][2] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 296
Further reading
[edit]- Chirikba, Viacheslav A. (1996) A Dictionary of Common Abkhaz[3], Leiden, page 44