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Old Armenian
Etymology
Attested only once, in the plural. The singular can be reconstructed as *լուսանն (*lusann) or *լուսան (*lusan), theoretically also as *լուսանուն (*lusanun). Related to Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx), Proto-Slavic *rysь, Lithuanian lūšis, Proto-Germanic *luhsaz and inherited from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.
Noun
լուսանունք • (lusanunkʻ) pl
- lynxes
5th century, with changes and additions in later centuries,
Alexander Romance :
[1][2]- […] և լուսանունք (var. լոյսանունք, լուսանիւթք) և ինձք և վագերք և կարճագիք և փիղք և եզնախոյք և զուարակափիղք […]
- […] ew lusanunkʻ (var. loysanunkʻ, lusaniwtʻkʻ) ew injkʻ ew vagerkʻ ew karčagikʻ ew pʻiłkʻ ew eznaxoykʻ ew zuarakapʻiłkʻ […]
- Translation by Albert M. Wolohojian
- and lynxes, leopards, and tigers, and scorpions, and elephants, and wild oxen, and bull elephants
Descendants
References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “լուսան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 302–303
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “լուսանուն”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 898c
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 454
- Müller, Friedrich (1890) “Armeniaca VI”, in Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Classe (in German), volume 122, page 3
- ^ Tʻreancʻ, Ṙapʻayēl, editor (1842), Patmutʻiwn Aġēkʻsandri Makedonacʻwoy [Alexander Romance] (Matenagrutʻiwnkʻ naxneacʻ), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 142
- ^ Wolohojian, Albert M. (1969) The Romance of Alexander the Great by Pseudo-Callisthenes, New York and London: Columbia University Press, page 126