բոյս

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Old Armenian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH-ko-, from *bʰewH- (to grow)[1][2][3]

Noun

բոյս (boys)

  1. plant, vegetative body
    բոյս արձակելboys arjakelto bud, to pullulate
    բոյս բարուց, բոյսք բնութեան, բարք բուսոցboys barucʻ, boyskʻ bnutʻean, barkʻ busocʻnature, temper, natural character

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Armenian: բույս (buys)

References

  1. ^ Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 42–43
  2. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բոյս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  3. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 187

Further reading

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բոյս”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բոյս”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy