ჰამ

Laz

Pronoun

ჰამ • (ham) (Latin spelling ham)

  1. Atina and Artasheni form of ჰაჲა (haya)

Svan

Etymology

From Proto-Kartvelian *c̣₁am- or *Lam-. Cognate with Mingrelian ჭუმე (č̣ume) and Laz ჭუმანი (ç̌umani).[1][2]

Noun

ჰამ • (ham)

  1. morning

References
  1. Klimov, G. A. (1998), “*c̣₁am-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 306
  2. Fähnrich, Heinz (2007), “*Lam-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 725―726

Further reading
  • Topuria, Varlam; Kaldani, Maksime (1994), “ჰამ”, in Svanuri leksiḳoni [Svan Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Merani-3 Publishing, page 1998
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