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Armenian
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Armenian դոն (don).
Pronunciation
Noun
դոն • (don)
- (dialectal) kind of longish bread
Declension
Derived terms
References
- Amatuni, Sahak (1912) “դօն”, in Hayocʻ baṙ u ban [Armenian Words and Idioms] (in Armenian), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
- Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “դօն”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House
Middle Armenian
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰoHnéh₂, but a *դուն (*dun) was expected from it. Alternatively, somehow connected with Hittite (dūni-), (tunik, “kind of pastry”).
Noun
դոն • (don)
- kind of bread
14th century,
Grigor Tatʻewacʻi,
Meknutʻiwn Yohannu Awetaranin :
[1]- Վասն դոնի
Դարձեալ գիտելի է, որ ի վանորայս եփեն զհացն և կոչեն «դոն», այսինքն՝ դուն նուազ և փոքր ի ձև ձկան, և բեկել նկանակացն նմանեցուցեալ։- Vasn doni
Darjeal giteli ē, or i vanorays epʻen zhacʻn ew kočʻen “don”, aysinkʻn, dun nuaz ew pʻokʻr i jew jkan, ew bekel nkanakacʻn nmanecʻucʻeal.
- (transferred sense) an architectural ornament/detail, probably architrave
Descendants
References
- ^ Grigor Tatʻewacʻi (2005) Ġukas Zakʻaryan, editor, Meknutʻiwn Yohannu Awetaranin [Commentary on the Gospel of John] (Nor Ktakarani grkʻeri meknutʻyunner; 12), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 264
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “դոն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
- Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “դոն”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
- Hovhannisyan, L. Š. (2010) “դոն”, in Grabari baṙaran. Nor haykazyan baṙaranum čʻvkayvac baṙer [Dictionary of Old Armenian. Words Unattested in the New Haykazyan Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, page 98
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 241
- Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “դոն”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “դոն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 16