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From Middle Armenian*մաթուզ(*matʻuz) attested in the tree name մաթզ-ի(matʻz-i). Further origin uncertain. Confined to the dialects of the South-Western group (Cilicia and Antioch), which corresponds to the range of the tree: see the map.
^ Grzega, Joachim (2001) Romania Gallica Cisalpina: Etymologisch-geolinguistische Studien zu den oberitalienisch-rätoromanischen Keltizismen, Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, page 206
Further reading
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “մաթուզ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 742ab
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մաթուզ”, 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 223–224, unknown origin
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “Haykakankʻ (Armeniaca)”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 637, derives from ադամաթուզ(adamatʻuz, literally “Adam's fig”) by haplology, but this is a modern literary creation and refers to the banana
J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 317, repeats Greppin's etymology
Greppin, John A. C. (1980) “Hieroglyphic-Luwian ma-tú-sà ‘Arbutus’”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung, volume 94, number 1/2, pages 119–122, connects with Luwian(VITISma-tú-sà) glossing it as "Arbutus", but the Luwian term is now considered an inflected form of (matu-, “wine”) and is unrelated
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