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Armenian
Etymology
A ghost word found in Norayr's French–Armenian dictionary[1] and from there copied into later dictionaries.[2][3] In his unfinished Middle Armenian dictionary, Norayr quotes the term in an unpublished passage by a certain Tēr Komitas who probably should be identified with Tēr Komitas Kʻēōmiwrčean (17th c.) of Constantinople, the brother of Eremia Čʻēlēpi Kʻēōmiwrčean.
Likely borrowed from Georgian წყნარი (c̣q̇nari, “calm, peaceful”) or a related word, because of the legend that the halcyons calm the waters, but the details are unclear.
Pronunciation
Noun
ծղնի • (cġni)
- (rare) kingfisher, halcyon
- Synonyms: ալկիոն (alkion), խոթ (xotʻ)
1703,
Komitas Kʻēōmiwrčean,
On the creedal controversies of 1701–1703 at the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople :
[4]- Մինչ ծովն ի խաղութեան եւ հանդարտութեան կայ, ոչ երբէք երեւին․ թեւ չունին, ջրայինք, որք լողան ի ջուրս եւ կոչին ծղնիք․ եւ այլազգաբար մարթի
- Minčʻ covn i xaġutʻean ew handartutʻean kay, očʻ erbēkʻ erewin; tʻew čʻunin, ǰrayinkʻ, orkʻ loġan i ǰurs ew kočʻin cġnikʻ; ew aylazgabar martʻi
- While the sea is at calm, they never appear; they have no wings—the water kinds—which float on water and are called cġni; and in infidel martı .
Declension
References
- ^ Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (1882–1884) “alcyon”, in Baṙagirkʻ i gałłierēn lezuē i hayerēn, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian Press, page 41a
- ^ Mēnēvišean, Gabriēl (1897) Patkerazard bnakan patmutʻiwn, A. Kendanabanutʻiwn (in Armenian), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 125–126
- ^ Ġazaryan, Ṙuben (2001) “ալկիոն”, in Kendanineri anunneri hayeren-ṙuseren-latineren kargabanakan baṙaran. Girkʻ B. Tʻṙčʻunner (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: Macmillan Armenia, →ISBN, § 415, page 31
- ^ Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “ծղնի”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ, edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 325
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “ծղնի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 463b, not knowing the origin
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “ծղնի”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 365ab, not knowing the origin