բոյն

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Old Armenian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH-no-, from *bʰewH- (to be; to grow).

Noun

բոյն (boyn)

  1. nest of a bird
    բոյն դնել, կառուցանելboyn dnel, kaṙucʻanelto nestle, to make one's nest
    հանել ի բունոյhanel i bunoyto take out of the nest
  2. (by extension) den, lair, kennel, burrow, hole of other animals
  3. hut, shack of a human
  4. niche, hole

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Armenian: բույն (buyn), բուն (bun)
    • Northern Kurdish: پون (pun)
    • Ottoman Turkish: پین (pin)
  • Bats: ბე (ben)
  • Chechen: бен (ben)
  • Ingush: бӏи (bˀi)
  • Old Armenian: *բունակ (*bunak)

References

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բոյն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բոյն”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բոյն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “բոյն”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 187