ვახტანგი

• ვახო (vaxo)

From an Iranian name, reflected also in Old Armenian Վախտանկ (Vaxtank), Վախթանկ (Vaxtʿank), Վախտանգ (Vaxtang), Վաղթանկ (Vałtʿank).

The origin of the Iranian name is uncertain. Gamkrelidze / Ivanov suggest an inner-Iranian analysis as *warx-tang (literally “wolf-bodied”); for the constituents see Old Persian 𐎺𐎼𐎣 (varka-, “wolf”) and Persian تن‎ (tan, “body”). Compare also Ossetian Уӕрхӕг (Wærxæg, “the name of the mythical founder of Narts”), from the Iranian word for “wolf”.

• IPA^(key): /vɑxtʼɑnɡi/
• Hyphenation: ვახ‧ტა‧ნგი

ვახტანგი • (vaxṭangi)

1. A male given name

• Ačaṙyan, Hračʿya (1962), “Վախթանկ”, in Hayocʿ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Personal Names] (in Armenian), volume V, Yerevan: University Press, page 7
• Justi, Ferdinand (1895) Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 343
• Gamkrelidze, Th. V.; Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 416
• Abajev, V. I. (1989) Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ osetinskovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, pages 96—97