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Armenian
Etymology
Uncertain.[1] Possibly contains ձու (ju, “egg”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
ձուղբ • (juġb) (rare)
- roe, spawn
- Synonym: ձկնկիթ (jknkitʻ)
Usage notes
Found only in dictionaries, the earliest being Ananean in the form ձուղպ (juġp)[3] and Sarafean in the form ծուղպ (cuġp).[4]
Declension
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References
- ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “ձուղբ”, 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, page 160b
- ^ Tašean, Yakovbos (1926) Baṙaxōsakan ditoġutʻiwnner hayerēn gitakan lezui masin [Lexical remarks about Armenian scientific vocabulary] (Azgayin matenadaran; 116) (in Armenian), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 28–29
- ^ Ananean, Mkrtičʻ (1769) “խաւիար”, in Baṙgirkʻ Haykazean lezui. Baṙgirkʻ yašxarhabaṙē i grabaṙn [Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Dictionary from New Armenian into Old Armenian] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 246b
- ^ Sarafean, Kġēopatra (1788) Banali gitutʻean [Key of Knowledge] (overall work in Armenian and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Grigor Khaldariants press, page 64
Further reading
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1991) “Stugabanutʻyunner [Etymologies]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal] (in Armenian), number 2, Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 41–42, connects the *ձու- (*ju-) part with ձուկն (jukn), comparing *-ղբ (*-ġb) with Old Irish reduplicated lelap, lelab, lenab (“infant, babe, child”), reconstructing Proto-Indo-European *lebʰ- (“youngling, nestling, child”) for the Armenian and Celtic, deriving ձուղբ (jułb) from *ǵʰū-lebʰ- (literally “fish-youngling”).
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “juɫb”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 440, tentatively derives *-ղբ (*-ġb) from աղբ (aġb, “excrement, dung”), for the semantics comparing ծիրտ (cirt, “dung (of birds and flies)”) : ծրտեմ (crtem, “to spawn”)