ქან
Svan
Etymology
Akin to Ossetian гӕн (gæn), Abkhaz а-қәны (a-kʷnə).[1][2][3] See Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis) for more.
Derived terms
- ქჷნა̈შ (kənäš)
- ქჷნშა̄რ (kənšār)
References
- Tuite, Kevin (1997) Svan (Languages of the World, Materials; 139), Munich: LINCOM-Europa, →ISBN, page 9
- Abajev, V. I. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 512-513
- 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
- Topuria, Varlam, Kaldani, Maksime (1994) “ქან”, in Svanuri leksiḳoni [Svan Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Merani-3 Publishing, page 1742
- Chirikba, Viacheslav A. (1996) A Dictionary of Common Abkhaz, Leiden, page 44
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