ობოლი

Etymology
The origin is.

Often compared to 🇨🇬, especially to its reflex 🇨🇬, and sometimes considered a borrowing from the Armenian term.

In his earlier work Klimov (1964) reconstructs 🇨🇬, however later he doubts the nativeness of the Kartvelian terms, and this reconstruction is no longer considered in his expanded 1998 version of the dictionary. Instead, he compares with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Starostin connects it with controversial *Hu(r)bV̆ ("orphan"), and considers the comparison with 🇨🇬 to be problematic.

Noun

 * 1) orphan