Reconstruction:Old Persian/nauciš

Etymology
Of origin.

In view of isolated distribution and no obvious correspondences in any other branch of Indo-European, Gamkrelidze / Ivanov consider the word borrowed from. On the other hand, according to Ačaṙean the Kartvelian forms themselves are borrowed from Iranian.

Gamkrelidze / Ivanov give an alternative native etymology from, remarking that in case the direction of borrowing is the reverse, contacts between Iranian and Kartvelian languages would have to be posited as early as the period of Proto-Kartvelian unity, no later than the first half of the second millennium B.C.

Compare also 🇨🇬,, , 🇨🇬 / , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 which may be related.

Noun

 * 1) cedar