օձ

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Armenian [edit]

Մի սև օձ (Mi sew ōj) - A black snake

Etymology [edit]

From Old Armenian օձ (ōj); see it for more.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

օձ  (ōj)

  1. snake, serpent

Declension [edit]

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Old Armenian [edit]

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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)

  1. 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

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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)