որթ

From Old Armenian որթ (ortʻ).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /voɾtʰ/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /voɾt/,

որթ • (ortʻ)

1. vine, grapevine

From Proto-Indo-European *pórt-h₂-u-. Cognate with Ancient Greek πόρτις (pórtis, “bull-calf; boy”), Sanskrit पृथुक (pṛthuka, “boy; the young of any animal”), Welsh erthyl (“untimely birth”), Old High German farro (German Farre (“bullock”)). The initial *p- survives in dialectal հորթ (hortʻ) which is the accepted and usual form in modern literary Armenian. Related to որդի (ordi, “child”).

որթ • (ortʻ)

2. calf

   որթ դիեցիկ ― ortʻ diecʻik ― sucking calf

   միս որթու ― mis ortʻu ― veal

   որթ խորովեալ ― ortʻ xoroveal ― roast veal

   մորթ որթու ― mortʻ ortʻu ― calf-skin

   որթ ծովային ― ortʻ covayin ― seal, sea-calf

   որթ ոսկի ձուլածոյ ― ortʻ oski julacoy ― golden calf

3. young of a deer

   որթ եղանց ― ortʻ ełancʻ ― fawn, young deer

• Armenian: հորթ (hortʻ)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “որթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “որթ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “որթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, pages 578–579
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “analut‘”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 65
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “ort‘”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 536–537

According to Ačaṙyan, developed figuratively from որթ (ortʻ, “calf”); typologically he compares երինջ (erinǰ, “heifer; sprout of grapes”), Ancient Greek βλαστός (blastós, “sprout; child”), μόσχος (móskhos, “calf; young shoot, twig”). Martirosyan does not discuss որթ (ortʻ, “vine”) s.v. որթ (ortʻ, “calf”), but he mentions the pair under the semantic field young animals : young branches : child, generation (human, fauna and flora), along with երինջ (erinǰ, “heifer”) : երինջ (erinǰ, “sprout of grapes”) and մորճ (morč, “thicket; young branch”) : մանուկ-մորճուկ (manuk-morčuk, “young (children, orphans)”), մորճիկ (morčik, “offspring, son or daughter”).

J̌ahukyan, following Pedersen, derives from Proto-Indo-European *ortʰo-, beside *ort- (“vine”), with Albanian hardhi as a cognate. Alternatively, following Petersson, he derives this from Proto-Indo-European *portʰo-, beside *pertʰ- (“pole, sprout”), with Ancient Greek πτόρθος (ptórthos, “sprout”) as a cognate.

որթ • (ortʻ)

2. vine, grapevine
   • 5th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Baroyaxōs Earliest recension (TR).17.3–5:^[1]

     Բարոյախաւսն ասէ զոզնոյ, թէ յորժամ ելանէ յողկոյզն որթոյ, արկանէ ի խոնարհ զպտուղն եւ սփռէ ի գետնին եւ ինքն թաւալի ի վերա․ եւ կառչին պտուղքն ի խոչսն, եւ առեալ տանի ձագուցն իւրեանց եւ թողու լոկ զշրուանդսն։

     Baroyaxawsn asē zoznoy, tʻē yoržam elanē yołkoyzn ortʻoy, arkanē i xonarh zptułn ew spʻṙē i getnin ew inkʻn tʻawali i vera; ew kaṙčʻin ptułkʻn i xočʻsn, ew aṙeal tani jagucʻn iwreancʻ ew tʻołu lok zšruandsn.

     • Translation by Gohar Muradyan

       Physiologus says about the hedgehog, that when it climbs to the bunch of grapes of the vine, it drops the fruits down and scatters them on the ground, and it itself rolls on top, and the grapes stick to its quills, and it takes them to its young and leaves the bunch empty.

3. (rare) grape (the fruit of vine)

• Armenian: որթ (ortʻ)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “որթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “որթ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Petersson, Herbert (1916) “Beiträge zur armenischen Wortkunde”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung (in German), volume 47, number 3/4, pages 271—273
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “որթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 579
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 785
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “որթ II”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, pages 606–607