թշու
Armenian
Alternative forms
- թշով (tʿšov)
Etymology
A Turkic borrowing: compare Crimean Tatar tırşav, dialectal tışav, Tatar тышау (tışau), Bashkir тышау (tïšaw), dialectal Azerbaijani tuşağ, tuşax, dialectal Turkish duşak, doşak (“hobble”) etc, which are of native Turkic origin.[1]
Noun
թշու • (tʿšu)
- (dialectal, Nor Nakhichevan) hobble
- Synonym: ոտնակապ (otnakap)
Usage notes
Because թշու (tʿšu) is not included in standard references apart from a few dictionaries,[2][3][4][5] it has been treated as a ghost word[6]. But it can now be recognised as belonging to the Nor Nakhichevan dialect, with a derivative թշոնել (tʿšonel, “to hobble”).[7][8] Hence the closeness to Kipchak Turkic forms rather than to Anatolian Turkish and Azerbaijani.
Derived terms
- թշոնել (tʿšonel, “to hobble”)
References
- Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Nauka, page 306
- Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “թշու”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 226b
- Gayayean, Yovhannēs Tʿ. (1983), “թշու”, in Baṙaran Ganjaran Hayerēn Lezui [Dictionary Thesaurus of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 3rd edition, Beirut: Hamaskaïne W. Sethian Press
- Sukʿiasyan, A. M. (1967), “թշու”, in Ałayan Ē. B., Sewak G. G., editors, Hayocʿ lezvi homanišneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Synonyms] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press
- Sukʿiasyan, A. M. (2009), “թշու”, in Hayocʿ lezvi homanišneri bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Armenian Synonyms] (Haykakan matenašar Galust Kiwlpēnkean himnarkutʿean) (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
- Malxaseancʿ, Stepʿan (1944), “թշու”, in Hayerēn bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 115b
- Alaverdjan, S. Dz. (1997), “тшов, тшонэл”, in O. A. Sargsjan, editor, Armjano-russkij slovarʹ nornaxičevanskovo dialekta (zapadnoarmjanskovo jazyka) [Armenian–Russian Dictionary of Nor Nakhichevan Dialect (of Western Armenian)], Chaltyr: Self-published, page 45
- Malxasjan, A. G. (2001), “թշոնել”, in Armjansko-russkij slovarʹ dialekta donskix (naxičevanskix) armjan. Korni slov i familij [Armenian–Russian Dictionary of the Dialect of Don (Nakhichevan) Armenians. Roots of Words and Surnames], Rostov-on-Don: Izdatelʹstvo Severo-Kavkazskovo naučnovo centra vysšej školy, →ISBN, page 68