սունկն

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Old Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Connected with Ancient Greek σπόγγος (spóngos), σφόγγος (sphóngos) and Latin fungus, and together with them probably borrowed from a Mediterranean–Pontic substrate source.[1][2] Possibly also related to Georgian სოკო (soḳo), Tsez зикӏу (zik’u), Bezhta сакӏо (sakʼo), Moksha панга (panga) and Erzya панго (pango, mushroom).

Noun

սունկն (sunkn)

  1. tree-mushroom
  2. (pathology) mushroom-like abscess

Declension

Descendants

  • Armenian: սունկ (sunk)
    • Zazaki: sûng, sıng

References

  1. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սունկն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 251–252
  2. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 586–587

Further reading

  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “սունկ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 732a
  • Greppin, John A. C. (2010) “Urartian Sibilants in Armenian”, in Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, volume 4, number 1, page 180b of 179–182
  • Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “սունկ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 711b
  • Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “սունկն”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 711b
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սունկ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 648b
  • Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 83