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Where does “խի” come from?

խի (Armenian) comes from Old Armenian հի-, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís.

խի (Armenian): why

Definitions

  1. why

Ancestry of “խի”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Armenianհի-something
2Proto-Indo-European*kʷís—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís →