բոյն

Old Armenian[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH-no-, from *bʰewH- (“to be; to grow”).

բոյն • (boyn)

nest of a bird
բոյն դնել, կառուցանել ― boyn dnel, kaṙucʻanel ― to nestle, to make one's nest

հանել ի բունոյ ― hanel i bunoy ― to take out of the nest
(by extension) den, lair, kennel, burrow, hole of other animals
hut, shack of a human
niche, hole

o-type

	singular	plural
nominative	բոյն (boyn)	բոյնք (boynkʻ)
genitive	բունոյ (bunoy)	բունոց (bunocʻ)
dative	բունոյ (bunoy)	բունոց (bunocʻ)
accusative	բոյն (boyn)	բոյնս (boyns)
ablative	բունոյ (bunoy)	բունոց (bunocʻ)
instrumental	բունով (bunov)	բունովք (bunovkʻ)
locative	բոյն (boyn)	բոյնս (boyns)
the singular locative can be բունի (buni), the singular ablative can be բունէ (bunē)

Armenian: բույն (buyn), բուն (bun)
- → Northern Kurdish: پون (pun)
- → Ottoman Turkish: پین (pin)
  - Turkish: pin
→ Bats: ბე^ნ (beⁿ)
→ Chechen: бен (ben)
→ Ingush: бӏи (bˀi)
⇒ Old Armenian: *բունակ (*bunak)
- → Georgian: ბუნაგი (bunagi)

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Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բոյն”, 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) “բոյն”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik
Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 187