դրինդ

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Perhaps from դրանդի (drandi, upper part of the door-frame), by a semantic shift "upper-door" > "upper-surface of hand".

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

դրինդ (drind)

  1. (dialectal) the upper/inner, soft part of the hand

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “դրինդ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “*and-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 74