առուոյտ

առուոյտ

Middle Armenian

Alternative forms

• առւուտ (aṙwut), առվոյտ (aṙvoyt), առոյտ (aṙoyt), առուտ (aṙut), առուոտ (aṙuot), առաւիտ (aṙawit), առաւոյտ (aṙawoyt), առաւօտ (aṙawōt), առաւետ (aṙawet)

Etymology

The origin is unknown. Compare dialectal Georgian ალავერდი (alaverdi, “alfalfa”), Proto-Germanic *arwīts (“pea”), Ancient Greek ἐρέβινθος (erébinthos, “chickpea”), ὄροβος (órobos, “bitter vetch”), Latin ervum (“vetch”).

Noun

առուոյտ • (aṙuoyt)

1. alfalfa, lucerne, Medicago sativa
   • 6th–11th centuries, Baṙkʿ Gałianosi [The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen] :[1]

     միդիկարին (var. մեդիկարին) = առուոյտ (vars. առաւոյտ, առուոյս)։

     midikarin (var. medikarin) = aṙuoyt (vars. aṙawoyt, aṙuoys).

     μηδίκη (mēdíkē) = aṙuoyt

   • 9th or 10th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Tʿargmanutʿiwn dełocʿ zor əntrel en imastasērkʿn ew kargeal yayl lezuacʿ [A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary] :[2]

     առատաբա = առաւոյտ (var. առվոյդ)

     aṙataba = aṙawoyt (var. aṙvoyd)

     الرَطْبَة‎ (ar-raṭba) = aṙawoyt

Derived terms

• իշառուոյտ (išaṙuoyt)
• առաւիտանոց (aṙawitanocʿ)

Descendants

• Armenian: առվույտ (aṙvuyt)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “առուոյտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 265ab
• Ališan, Łewond (1895) Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʿiwn [Armenian Botany]‎ (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 158–9, pages 47–48
• Artʿinean, Yovhannēs (1906) Tunkerə ew anoncʿ hayerēn anunnerə [Des plantes et de leurs noms arméniens] (in Armenian), Paris: D. Dogramadjian, pages 8–9
• Dervischjan, P. Seraphin (1877) Armeniaca I: Das Altarmenische (in German), Vienna: Mechitharisten Buchdruckerei, page 29
• Greppin, John A. C. (1992), “Mediterranian Botanical Loanwords in Classical Armenian”, in John A. C. Greppin, editor, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Armenian Linguistics, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio September 14–18, 1991, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, pages 71–72
• Hiwnkʿearpēyēntean, Yovhannēs (1894), “առուոյտ”, in Stugabanakan baṙaran hayocʿ lezui [Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Tparan G. Paɫtatlean, page 241a
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “առուոյտ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 75b
• Łazaryan, Ṙ. S.; Avetisyan, H. M. (2009), “առուոյտ կապոյտ, առուոտ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 76b
• Łazaryan, Ṙ. S.; Avetisyan, H. M. (2009), “առվոտ, առվուտ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 77n

References

1. Greppin, John A. C. (1985) Baṙkʿ Gaɫianosi: The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 76
2. Greppin, John A. C. (1997) A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary (Studien zur armenischen Geschichte; 16), separate reprint of the Handes Amsorya 109 (1995), 380–457 edition, Vienna: Mechitarist Press, § 15, pages 25–26