օձ
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Armenian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Armenian օձ (ōj); see it for more.
Pronunciation [edit]
- (Eastern Armenian) IPA: [otsʰ]
- (Western Armenian) IPA: [otsʰ]
Noun [edit]
օձ • (ōj)
Declension [edit]
i-type, plural in -er, animate (Eastern Armenian)
External links [edit]
- Search “օձ” in the Eastern Armenian National Corpus.
Old Armenian [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
The original spelling is աւձ (awj), from Proto-Armenian *awǵʰi, from *anʷgi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂engʷʰi- (“snake”). Cognates include Latin anguis, Lithuanian angis, Old High German unc and Old East Slavic ужь (užĭ) (Russian уж). See also անգի and իժ.
Noun [edit]
օձ • (ōj) (singular genitive օձի, plural genitive օձից)
- snake
- օձ աւազակ (ōj awazak) — the devil
- օձ խարամանի (ōj xaramani) — dipsas or dipsade
- օձ չչէ (ōj čʿčʿē) — the serpent hisses
- քաղցրութեամբ օձն ի ծակէն ելանէ (kʿałcʿrutʿeamb ōjn i cakēn elanē) — a smooth tongue draws (gentleness is better than force)
- օձի դեղ (ōji deł) — viper's bugloss, echium
Declension [edit]
i-type
Derived terms [edit]
Descendants [edit]
- Armenian: օձ (òj)
References [edit]
- “օձ” in Hračʿeay Ačaṙean (1926–35), Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (Yerevan: Yerevan State University), 2nd ed., 1971–79
- “օձ” in Mathias Bedrossian (1879), New Dictionary Armenian-English (Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy)
- “awj” in Hrach Martirosyan (2009), Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Brill Academic Publishers)