կնձնի

• կնձենի (knjeni)

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian կնձնի (knjni).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /kənd͡zˈni/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɡənt͡sˈni/,
• Hyphenation: կընձ‧նի

կնձնի • (knjni)

1. elm (any tree of the genus Ulmus)

   Synonym: թեղի (tʻeġi)

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *winǵ- +‎ -ենի (-eni) and cognate with Lithuanian vìnkšna (“European white elm”), Russian вяз (vjaz), English wych elm, Albanian vidh, Northern Kurdish bizî (“elm”), perhaps also Ossetian уисхъӕд (wisqæd, “maple”).

կնձնի • (knjni)

1. a species of elm (Ulmus campestris)

• → Armenian: կնձնի (knjni) (learned)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “կնձնի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “կնձնի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Béguinot, Augusto, Diratzouyan, Nersès (1912) Contributo alla flora dell' Armenia‎ (in Italian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 81, page 37
• Mann, Stuart E. (1963) Armenian and Indo-European: Historical phonology‎, London: Luzac & Co. Ltd., page 156
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 366
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “կնձնի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy