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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).
Noun
а-қәны́ • (a-kʷnə́)
- flax, Linum
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
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