ақәны
Abkhaz
Etymology
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).
References
- Tuite, Kevin (1997) Svan (Languages of the World, Materials; 139), Munich: LINCOM-Europa, →ISBN, page 9
- Abajev, V. I. (1949) Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 296
Further reading
- Chirikba, Viacheslav A. (1996) A Dictionary of Common Abkhaz, Leiden, page 44
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