ئەژنۆ

Central Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *jnú, from *ȷ́nú, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ā́nu, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”). Cognate with Middle Persian [script needed] (šnwk' /⁠šnōg⁠/) and Avestan 𐬲𐬥𐬎 (žnu).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaʒno̞ː/

Noun

Northern Kurdish ejnû, jinû

ئەژنۆ (ejno)

  1. knee
    Synonym: چۆک (çok)

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.