კჳრიონი

Old Georgian

Noun

კჳრიონი • (ḳwirioni)

1. kingfisher, halcyon (Alcedo atthis)

   Synonym: ალკჳონი (alḳwioni)

Descendants

• Georgian: კვირიონი (ḳvirioni, “European bee-eater; golden oriole”), კირიონი (ḳirioni)

Further reading

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “კჳრიონი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎^[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 206b
• Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “კჳრიონი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 579b
• Noble, Samuel (2019) “Was the Earliest Georgian Version of Basil’s Hexaemeron Based on an Arabic Vorlage?”, in Georgian Manuscript, Tbilisi, pages 32–37, derives from Ancient Greek ἀλκυών (alkuṓn), the reading of which was apparently influenced by Arabic, thence Ancient Greek ἀλ (al) was misconstrued as Arabic اَلْ (al-) definite article and dropped