pirûd
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Old Armenian բրուտ (brut, “potter”), from Hittite 𒁍𒊒𒌓 (/purut/, “mud”). Borrowed from a Western Armenian dialect.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɪˈɾuːd/
Noun
pirûd m or f
- potter
References
- Greppin, John A. C. (1991), “The Survival of Ancient Anatolian and Mesopotamian Vocabulary Until the Present”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, volume 50, issue 3, pages 203–207
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “pirûd”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press