գետնառիւծ

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Old Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From գետին (getin) +‎ առիւծ (aṙiwc), calque of Ancient Greek χαμαιλέων (khamailéōn), from χαμαί (khamaí, on the earth, on the ground) + λέων (léōn, lion).

Noun

գետնառիւծ (getnaṙiwc)

  1. chameleon

Declension

Descendants

  • Armenian: գետնառյուծ (getnaṙyuc)

References

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գետնառիւծ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “գետնառիւծ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “analut‘”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 65