ბიკენჩხა̈ლ

Svan

Alternative forms

• ბეკენჩხალ (beḳenčxal), ბიკენჩხალ (biḳenčxal), ბიკუნჩხალ (biḳunčxal), ბიკჷნჩხალ (biḳənčxal), ბიკინჩხა̈ლ (biḳinčxäl) — Lashkhi
• ბეკიანჩ (beḳianč) — Cholur

Etymology

From Proto-Kartvelian *ḳerčx-.

Noun

ბიკენჩხა̈ლ • (biḳenčxäl) (plural ბიკენჩხა̈ლა̈რ) (Upper Bal, Kodori)

1. maple

See also

• თეკე̄რ (teḳēr)
• ფეხუ̂რა (pexûra)
• ნაკუ̂ერცხ (naḳûercx)

Further reading

• Liṗarṭeliani, Aslan (1994) “ბეკიანჩ”, in Svanuri leksiḳoni (čoluruli ḳilo) [Svan-Georgian dictionary (Cholur dialect)], Tbilisi, page 66a
• Maq̇ašvili, Aleksandre (1961) “ნეკერჩხალი”, in Boṭaniḳuri leksiḳoni [Botanical Dictionary]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Sabč̣ota Sakartvelo
• Oniani, Arsen (1917) “ბეკენჩხალ”, in Megmareš i balxare žaxēle xoraû / Сборник сванских названий деревьев и растений (на лашхском наречии) [Compilation of tree and plant names] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 8) (in Svan), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 5b
• Topuria, Varlam, Kaldani, Maksime (1994) “ბიკენჩხა̈ლ”, in Svanuri leksiḳoni [Svan Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Merani-3 Publishing, page 316
• Čanṭlaʒe, Iza, Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Margiani-Dadvani, Ketevan, Margiani-Subari, Ketevan, Ioseliani, Rusudan (2020) Merab Čuxua, Rusudan Zekalašvili, editors, Ḳodoruli svanuri [Kodori Svan]‎^[2] (in Georgian), Tbilisi-Jena, →ISBN, page 213