առուոյտ

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Middle Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

The origin is unknown. Compare dialectal Georgian ალავერდი (alaverdi, alfalfa), Proto-Germanic *arwīts (pea), Ancient Greek ἐρέβινθος (erébinthos, chickpea), ὄροβος (órobos, bitter vetch), Latin ervum (vetch).

Noun

առուոյտ (aṙuoyt)

  1. alfalfa, lucerne, Medicago sativa
    • 6th–12th? centuries, Baṙkʻ Gałianosi  :[1]
      միդիկարին (var. մեդիկարին) = առուոյտ (vars. առաւոյտ, առուոյս)։
      midikarin (var. medikarin) = aṙuoyt (vars. aṙawoyt, aṙuoys).
      μηδίκη (mēdíkē) = aṙuoyt
    • 9th or 10th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Tʻargmanutʻiwn dełocʻ zor əntrel en imastasērkʻn ew kargeal yayl lezuacʻ  :[2]
      առատաբա = առաւոյտ (var. առվոյդ)
      aṙataba = aṙawoyt (var. aṙvoyd)
      الرَطْبَة (ar-raṭba) = aṙawoyt

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Armenian: առվույտ (aṙvuyt)

References

  1. ^ Greppin, John A. C. (1985) Baṙkʿ Gaɫianosi: The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 76
  2. ^ Greppin, John A. C. (1997) A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary (Studien zur armenischen Geschichte; 16), a separate print of Greppin 1995, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, § 15, pages 25–26

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