երէզ

Old Armenian

Etymology

Closely related to Old Georgian რეზი (rezi)[1][2] and together with it borrowed from an unidentified Middle Iranian word probably descended from Proto-Iranian *wrays- (“to turn, spin”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ-, whence for example Zazaki rês (“woolen yarn”), Northern Kurdish rîs, rês (“woolen yarn, woolen thread”), Central Kurdish ریس‎ (rîs, “thread, string”), Khwarezmian [script needed] (rys, “thread”), Persian ‎ (rismân, “cord, string”), ‎ (rešte, “thread, string”). For these and other forms see Cheung and ESIJa,[3][4] without the Armenian and Georgian. For the voiced final consonant compare ասպարէզ (asparēz), if from the same root. The ե- (e-) is prothetic as in other Iranian borrowings with an initial r-, e.g. երազ (eraz), երակ (erak), երագ (erag).

Noun

երէզ • (erēz)

band, bandage
- 6th–7th centuries, Basil of Caesarea, Yałags gohutʿean [Homilia de gratiarum actione] 5:[5]
  Եւ մեռեալն արտաքոյ լինէր, եւ կապեալն զնայր: Սքանչելիք ի զարմացմանն․ երիզովք կապեալ զոտս, եւ ոչ խափանեալ առ շարժումն։
  Ew meṙealn artakʿoy linēr, ew kapealn znayr: Skʿančʿelikʿ i zarmacʿmann; erizovkʿ kapeal zots, ew očʿ xapʿaneal aṙ šaržumn.
  Jam mortuus revocabatur ad vitam: jam alligatus ambulabat. Inest miraculum in miraculo. Pedes ligabantur institis, nec tamen a motu prohibebatur.

Usage notes

Attested only in instrumental plural երիզովք (erizovkʿ), whence NHB incorrectly back-formed the nominative singular as *երիզ (*eriz).[6] This ghost form has been copied over into other dictionaries and learnedly adopted in the modern literary language.
In Basil, translates Ancient Greek κειρίαι (keiríai).

Declension

o-type

	singular	plural
nominative	երէզ (erēz)	երէզք (erēzkʿ)
genitive	երիզոյ (erizoy)	երիզոց (erizocʿ)
dative	երիզոյ (erizoy)	երիզոց (erizocʿ)
accusative	երէզ (erēz)	երէզս (erēzs)
ablative	երիզոյ (erizoy)	երիզոց (erizocʿ)
instrumental	երիզով (erizov)	երիզովք (erizovkʿ)
locative	երէզ (erēz)	երէզս (erēzs)

Derived terms

երիզապատ (erizapat)
երիզապարգեւ (erizapargew)
երիզապինդ (erizapind)
երիզապնդեալ (erizapndeal)
երիզապնդեայ (erizapndeay)

Descendants

→ Armenian: երիզ (eriz) (learned)

References

Dočanašvili, Elene (1945) Masalebi adišis otxtavis armenizmebis saḳitxisatvi [Materials on the issue of Armenisms in Adishi Four Gospels (dissertation)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 27
Sarjveladze, Sophio (2012), “The Problem of Establishing the Recensions of the Georgian Version of the Gospels”, in Christian Amphoux, James Keith Elliott, editors, Textual Research on the Psalms and Gospels / Recherches textuelles sur les psaumes et les évangiles: Papers from the Tbilisi Colloquium on the Editing and History of Biblical Manuscripts. Actes du Colloque de Tbilisi, 19-20 septembre 2007 (Novum Testamentum, Supplements; 142), Leiden – Boston: Brill, pages 184, 185
Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 437–438
Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume VI, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 350–355
S. Barseł Kesaracʿi (2008), Kim Muradyan, editor, Girkʿ pahocʿ [Book of Fasting] (Ekełecʿakan matenagrutʿiwn; 2), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 355a
Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836), “երիզ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 683c

[1] Dočanašvili, Elene (1945) Masalebi adišis otxtavis armenizmebis saḳitxisatvi [Materials on the issue of Armenisms in Adishi Four Gospels (dissertation)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 27

[2] Sarjveladze, Sophio (2012), “The Problem of Establishing the Recensions of the Georgian Version of the Gospels”, in Christian Amphoux, James Keith Elliott, editors, Textual Research on the Psalms and Gospels / Recherches textuelles sur les psaumes et les évangiles: Papers from the Tbilisi Colloquium on the Editing and History of Biblical Manuscripts. Actes du Colloque de Tbilisi, 19-20 septembre 2007 (Novum Testamentum, Supplements; 142), Leiden – Boston: Brill, pages 184, 185

[3] Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 437–438

[4] Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume VI, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 350–355

[5] S. Barseł Kesaracʿi (2008), Kim Muradyan, editor, Girkʿ pahocʿ [Book of Fasting] (Ekełecʿakan matenagrutʿiwn; 2), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 355a

[6] Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836), “երիզ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 683c