Georgian

Noun

წამწამი • ‎(c̣amc̣ami) ‎(plural წამწამები)

1. eyelash

Old Georgian

Etymology

Reduplication of the Proto-Kartvelian root *c̣am-; see there for more.

Noun

წამწამი • ‎(c̣amc̣ami)

1. eyelash

Descendants

• Georgian: წამწამი ‎(c̣amc̣ami)

References

• abulaʒe, ilia (1973), “წამწამი”, in ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 532
• Klimov, Georgij A. (1998), “*c̣am-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 292
• Klimov, G. A. (1964), “*c̣am-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kartvelʹskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 242
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007), “*c̣am-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 615—616