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Old Armenian
Etymology
The older form is *խևս (*xews), together with Old Georgian ხევსი (xevsi) likely borrowed from Iranian: compare Classical Persian خیس (xēs, “wet, soaked, drenched”), Gazi (χǖs, “wet, moist”).
Noun
խիւս • (xiws)
- watery food, porridge, gruel
- the moisture in ears of wheat
5th century,
Abraham Xostovanoł,
Vkaykʻ arewelicʻ :
[1]- Դարմանէր և սնուցանէր մեղմով արևմտեայ աւդովն, և մինչչև արտոցն ի չափ հասեալ էր և ոչ հասկոյն խիւս առեալ համարձակ և պնդեալ, յանկարծ սաստիկ ել խորշակահար հողմն արևելեայ և զմեծ մասն հասկոյն ազազեցո՛յց առանց խիւսոյ։
- Darmanēr ew snucʻanēr mełmov arewmteay awdovn, ew minčʻčʻew artocʻn i čʻapʻ haseal ēr ew očʻ haskoyn xiws aṙeal hamarjak ew pndeal, yankarc sastik el xoršakahar hołmn areweleay ew zmec masn haskoyn azazecʻóycʻ aṙancʻ xiwsoy.
Declension
Descendants
References
- ^ Tēr Mkrtčʻean, Galust (1921) Abrahamu Xostovanołi Vkaykʻ arewelicʻ [Abraham the Confessor's Acts of Syrian Martyrs] (Bnagirner ew hetazotutʻiwnner; 3), Etchmiadzin, pages 25–26
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “խիւս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, pages 371–372
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “խիւս”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 945b
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1945) Kerest Haig, editor, Étude philologique et lexicographique de 6000 mots et noms arméniens avec des comparaisons de 100.000 mots de 900 langues et des données historiques et géographiques (in French), London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., page 184, compares with Classical Persian خیسیدن (xīsīdan, “to moisten, knead”)
- Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 58, compares with Svan ხეუ̂ს (xeûs) and derives from Kartvelian; is unaware of the other Kartvelian forms