қәабжьа

Ubykh

Etymology

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Noun

қәабжьа • (kʷabža)

  1. husband

Further reading
  • Vogt, Hans (1963) Dictionnaire de la Langue Oubykh‎ (in French), Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, page 133
  • Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*kʷabž́a”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
  • Buḳia, Manana (2016) Merab Čuxua, editor, Čerkezul-kartveluri enobrivi šexvedrebi [Circassian-Kartvelian linguistic interactions] (in Georgian), Tbilisi, →ISBN, page 57, derives from Mingrelian ქომონჯი (komonǯi, “husband”)
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