վիզ

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Armenian վիզ (viz).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

վիզ (viz)

  1. neck
    Synonyms: պարանոց (paranocʿ), ճիտ (čit), բուկ (buk)
  2. (rare) isthmus
    Synonym: պարանոց (paranocʿ)

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Old Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Usually considered a word of unknown origin, but according to J̌ahukyan and Bailey this is an Iranian borrowing. Compare Avestan 𐬥𐬌𐬎𐬎𐬌𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (niuuizaiti, attach), from the base *viz-, *vaez- (to attach, bind), which goes back to Proto-Indo-European *weyǵ(ʰ)- and is cognate with Lithuanian výžti (to plait), Russian вязать (vjazatʹ), Old Prussian winsus (neck); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (to turn): the neck is the “turning limb”.

Noun[edit]

վիզ (viz)

  1. neck
    վիզ ամբառնալviz ambaṙnalto become rebellious, proud, insubordinate

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Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: վիզ (viz)

References[edit]

  • Petrosean, Matatʿeay (1879) “վիզ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʿean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “վիզ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979) “վիզ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “վիզ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 711a
  • Bailey, H. W. (1979) “vīysānvā”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 387b
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “awji-k‘”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 154, tentatively suggests a common substrate origin for վիզ (viz), օձիք (ōjikʿ), dialectal խզ- (xz-), խուզ- (xuz-) and Ancient Greek αὐχήν (aukhḗn).