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Georgian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: ვახ‧ტანგ
Proper noun
ვახტანგ • (vaxṭang)
- vocative singular of ვახტანგი (vaxṭangi)
Old Georgian
Etymology
From an Iranian name, reflected also in Old Armenian Վախտանկ (Vaxtank), Վախթանկ (Vaxtʻank), Վախտանգ (Vaxtang), Վաղթանկ (Vałtʻank).
The origin of the Iranian name is uncertain. Gamkrelidze / Ivanov suggest an inner-Iranian analysis as *warx-tang (literally “wolf-bodied”); for the constituents see Old Persian 𐎺𐎼𐎣 (varka-, “wolf”) and Persian تن (tan, “body”). Compare also Ossetian Уӕрхӕг (Wærxæg, “the name of the mythical founder of Narts”), from the Iranian word for “wolf”.
Proper noun
ვახტანგ • (vaxṭang)
- a male given name
Descendants
References
- Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1962) “Վախթանկ”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (in Armenian), volume V, Yerevan: University Press, page 7
- Justi, Ferdinand (1895) Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 343
- Gamkrelidze, Th. V., Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 416
- Abajev, V. I. (1989) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 96—97