Ποντικόν κάρυον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ποντικόν (Pontikón, “of Pontus”), from Πόντος (Póntos, “Pontus, a region on the southeastern shores of the Black Sea”), + κάρυον (káruon, “nut”). The name is referring to the fruit’s indigenousness and abundance in Pontus. Compare Latin nux Pontica (“hazelnut”).

Noun

Ποντικόν κάρυον • (Pontikón káruon)

1. hazelnut

Synonyms

• καρύα Ποντικά (karúa Pontiká)

Descendants

• → Middle Persian: pndk' (*pondik) (possibly)
  • Persian: پندک (pondok)
  • → Arabic: بُنْدُق (bunduq), بُنْدُقَة (bunduqa(t)), فُنْدُق (funduq)
    • Andalusian Arabic: بندق (bunduq)
      • → Portuguese: almôndega
      • → Spanish: albóndiga
        • → Ladino: albóndiga
    • → Azerbaijani: fındıq
    • → Armenian:
      • Armenian: պնդուկ (pnduk), ֆնդուղ (fnduġ)
      • Middle Armenian: պնդուխ (pndux)
      • Old Armenian: պնդեղ (pndeł)
    • → Bashkir: фундук (funduk)
    • → Chuvash: фундук (funduk)
    • → Tatar: фундук (funduq)
    • → Persian: فندق (fondoq, fandoq), بندق (bondoq)
      • Tajik: фундуқ (funduq), фандуқ (fanduq)
      • → Hindustani:

        Urdu: فندق (funduq, finduq, fanduq)

      • → Ottoman Turkish: فندق (funduq, fındıq), بندق (bunduq)
        • Turkish: fındık, funduk
        • → Crimean Tatar: fındıq, funduq
          • → Russian: фунду́к (fundúk)
            • → Belarusian: фунду́к (fundúk)
            • → Estonian: fundukk
            • → Ukrainian: фунду́к (fundúk)
        • → Greek: φουντούκι (fountoúki)
        • → Romanian: funduc
  • → Classical Syriac: ܦܢܕܩܐ (pendəqā)

References

• “Ποντικόν κάρυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “պնդեղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 93a
• H. Aʿlam, “HAZELNUT,” Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, 2014, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hazelnut (accessed on 29 March 2014).