The suffix "-ian" has already been mentioned. This is the Georgian adjective ending "-iani", which the Armenians themselves are unlikely to argue with. It is much more interesting that often the root of such surnames is interpreted only from the Georgian point of view and nothing else. This applies, in particular, to the surname "Melkonyan" or "Melkoniani", if in the Georgian version.
The root here is the word "melik(i)", which is translated as "king" and is not given in so many texts - Assyrian, Akkadian, Arabic, etc. The origin is attributed to Semitic languages.
But the word მელიქი (meliki) is a signature Kartvelian personifying structure, with the help of which the names of professions are formed. For example, მესაკრავე (mesakrave) - "musician" from "sakravi" - "musical instrument". If so, then the basis of the construction must be some verb, where the root is "lik" (ლიქ). And such a verb is indeed in the Georgian dictionary of Chanturia.
This is the archaic ლიქ(ვ)ნა (lik(v)na), where the root is precisely "lik". Thus, "melike" is the one who performs the action of likna". And "likna" is translated as "deception", "hypocrisy". Isn't this an amazing definition for a king - "melike"?
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