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Probably formed as *խոճ(*xoč, “pig”) + *կոր(*kor, “baby animal”), the first being a Zan borrowing (compare Mingrelianღეჯი(ɣeǯi), Lazღეჯი(ğeci, “pig”)), and the second being the unattested root of կոր-իւն(kor-iwn).[1][2][3] For the խ(x) see խրամ(xram).
Իբրև կամէր խոզ մի մատակ յղի զենուլ և զոհել՝ համակ սպիտակ, ի ձեռաց զերծանէր, և սրանայր ելանէր ի բլուր ինչ, ուր և երեսուն խոճկորս ծնանէր։Տեսանէր երեսս ինչ ի քուն՝ որ յայտ յանդիման արգելոյր զնա, և խրատ տայր յետ լ՟ ամի շինել՝ զնոյն կշիռ ըստ թուոյ խոճկորացն ծնելոց․ յիրացն՝ զոր եդ ի մտի՝ մեկուսի կալ։
Ibrew kamēr xoz mi matak yłi zenul ew zohel, hamak spitak, i jeṙacʻ zercanēr, ew sranayr elanēr i blur inčʻ, ur ew eresun xočkors cnanēr.[…]Tesanēr eress inčʻ i kʻun, or yayt yandiman argeloyr zna, ew xrat tayr yet l. ami šinel, znoyn kšiṙ əst tʻuoy xočkoracʻn cnelocʻ; yiracʻn, zor ed i mti, mekusi kal.
Translation by Robert Bedrosian
When he was preparing to sacrifice a pregnant white sow, the sow escaped from his grasp and was chased up a hill, where she gave birth to thirty piglets. But he was warned in a dream, that he should not found the city until thirty years had passed, the same number as the piglets which were born to the sow.
^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “խոճկոր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 389–390
^ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 595
^ Djahukian, Gevorg (2003) “Notes on Some Lexical Correspondences between Armenian and the Kartvelian Languages”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 7, number 1/2, page 193 of 191–194
^ Awgereancʻ, Mkrtičʻ (1818) Ewsebi Pampʻileay Kesaracʻwoy Žamanakakankʻ erkmasneay [Eusebii Pamphili Caesariensis Episcopi Chronicon Bipartitum], volume I, accompanied with the original Greek fragments and a modern Latin translation from Armenian, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 387
Further reading
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1909) “X ew K jaynerun lcordutʻiwnə [The x ~ k alternation]”, in Handes Amsorya (in Armenian), volume 23, number 5, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 160b of 159–160
Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “խոճկոր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
Hovhannisyan, L. Š. (1989) “Baṙakʻnnakan mi kʻani ditoġutʻyunner [Some lexicologic observations]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal] (in Armenian), number 3, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 147 of 145–151, argues for an Iranian origin for *խոճ(*xoč) and խոզ(xoz) (compare Persian خوک(xuk)), because a k ~ č ~ z alternation is common in Iranian
Hovhannisyan, L. Š. (2005) Hay-iranakan nor stugabanutʻyunner [New Armenian–Iranian Etymologies] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Van Aryan, →ISBN, pages 32–33, same as in 1989
Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “խոճկոր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
Tʻireakʻean, Yarutʻiwn (1914) “խոզ”, in Ariahay baṙaran : Norog tesutʻeambkʻ ew yaweluacovkʻ [Armeno-Aryan Dictionary] (in Armenian), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 181, identifies the second part with the etymon of քուռակ(kʻuṙak)
Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, pages 52-54