հովիտ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian հովիտ (hovit).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /hoˈvit/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /hoˈvid/,

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հովիտ • (hovit)

1. valley, vale, dale

• Aġayan, Ēduard (1976) “հովիտ”, in Ardi hayereni bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan

• ովիտ (ovit)

The origin is unknown. Has been compared to Urartian 𒄷𒁉 (/⁠ḫubi⁠/, “valley”), Proto-Georgian-Zan *qew- (“ravine”) and Akkadian 𒄷𒌒𒌈 (ḫu-up-tum /⁠ḫuptu⁠/, “hole, hollow”), in plural 𒄷𒌒𒉻 (ḫu-up-pat /⁠ḫuppātu⁠/).

հովիտ • (hovit)

1. valley, vale, dale
2. cavity
3. hillock, knoll

• → Armenian: հովիտ (hovit) (learned)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “հովիտ”, 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 116–117
• Arutjunjan, N. V. (2001) M. L. Xačikjan, editor, Корпус урартских клинообразных надписей [Corpus of Urartian Cuneiform Inscriptions]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 446b
• Arutjunjan, N. V. (2006) Биайнили – Урарту. Военно-политическая история и вопросы топонимики [Biainili – Urartu. The history of wars and politics, and questions of place-name studies]‎ (in Russian), 2nd edition, Saint Petersburg: University Press, page 311
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “հովիտ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 122b
• Awgerean, Mkrtičʻ, Čēlalean, Grigor (1865) “հովիտ”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 505a
• Bănățeanu, Vlad (1961) “Beiträge zum Studium der Urartischen Ortsnamen in der armenischen Toponymie”, in Handes Amsorya‎‎ (in German), volume 75, numbers 10–12, column 1067
• Bănățeanu, Vlad (1962) “Problema lexicului urartic din limba armeană [The problem of Urartian lexicon in the Armenian language]”, in Studii și cercetări lingvistice (in Romanian), volume 13, number 1, page 8 of 257–279
• Dʹjakonov, I. M. (1958) “Материалы к фонетике урартского языка [Materials on phonetics of the Urartian language]”, in Вопросы грамматики и истории восточных языков‎ (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 42
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1904) Die altarmenischen Ortsnamen (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 384–385
• Džaukjan, G. B. (1963) Урартский и индоевропейские языки [The Urartian and the Indo-European languages]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 134
• Džaukjan, G. B. (1985) “Урартские заимствования в армянском языке [Urartian loanwords in Armenian]”, in Ju. V. Bromlej et al., editors, Культурное наследие Востока: проблемы, поиски, суждения‎ (in Russian), Leningrad: Nauka, page 370 of 364–372
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 434, 442–443
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “հովիտ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 466ab
• Ġapʻancʻyan, Grigor (1940) Urartui patmutʻyunə [The History of Urartu] (in Armenian), Yerevan: University Press, page 55, also comparing խոպան (xopan)
• Kapancjan, G. A. (1940) Историко-лингвистическoe значение топонимики древней Армении [Historical and linguistic significance of ancient Armenian toponymy] (in Russian), Yerevan: University Press, page 45
• Kapancjan, G. A. (1956) Историко-лингвистические работы: К начальной истории армян: Древняя Малая Азия [Historical-Linguistic Works: Towards an early history of the Armenians. Ancient Asia Minor]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 196
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 943
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “հովիտ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 416a