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Old Georgian
Etymology
From Proto-Georgian-Zan *q̇win- (“temple, forehead (?)”).
Noun
ყჳნი • (q̇wini)
- forehead
- Synonym: შუბლი (šubli)
Descendants
- ⇒ Georgian: ყვინია (q̇vinia, “with prominent forehead”) (Racha)
Further reading
- Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, pages 271–272
- Čuxua, Merab (2019) Manana Mač̣avariani, Manana Buḳia, editors, Georgian–Circassian–Apkhazian Etymological Dictionary (expanded edition), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 484
- Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “ყჳნი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1313a