სუანი

Old Georgian

Etymology

The ethnonym is often connected with the name of a tribe Sanni, mentioned by various ancient Greek authors. However, according to Vakhushti Batonishvili, the term is derived from სავანე (savane, “shelter, residency”), but this is usually considered to be a folk etymology.
Due to the cognates present in other Kartvelian languages, Proto-Kartvelian *s₁wan- (“Svan”) is reconstructible.

Noun

სუანი • (suani)

  1. a person from Svaneti; Svan.

Descendants

References
  • Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 179
  • penrixi (Fähnrich), hainc; sarǯvelaʒe, zurab (2000) kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 418
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