қәабжьа

Ubykh

Etymology

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Noun

қәабжьа • (kʷabža)

1. husband

Further reading

• Vogt, Hans (1963) Dictionnaire de la Langue Oubykh‎^[1] (in French), Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, page 133
• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*kʷabž́a”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[2], 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”)