լորենի

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unattested in Old or Middle Armenian. Found only in North-Western and North-Eastern dialects. Formed with the botanical suffix + -ենի (-eni).

Probably a Northeast Caucasian borrowing: compare Avar лъор (lˢor, linden; hornbeam; aspen), Andi лъор (lˢor, elm; hornbeam; aspen). According to Xajdakov, these are cognate with Lak хьхьири (:iri), Dargwa хур (χur), Tabasaran хяржж (ꭓjaržž), Godoberi хари (χari), all meaning "linden".[3] See also Nikolayev / Starostin for the Caucasian words.[4]

Pronunciation

Noun

լորենի • (loreni)

  1. lime, linden, Tilia[5][6]
    Synonyms: թմբի (tʻmbi), կակղի (kakġi), ըխլամուր (əxlamur)

Declension

References

  1. Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2002), “լռնի”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 247b
  2. Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2002), “լոռի”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 244a
  3. Хайдаков, С. М. (1973) Сравнительно-сопоставительный словарь дагестанских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Dagestan Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 193, without the Armenian
  4. Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*x_wīrʕi ( ~ -ĕ)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers, without the Armenian
  5. Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S. (1981) “լորենի”, in Busanunneri hayeren-latineren-ṙuseren-angleren-franseren-germaneren baṙaran [Armenian–Latin–Russian–English–French–German Dictionary of Plant Names], Yerevan: University Press, § 449, page 39a
  6. Bedevian, Armenag K. (1936) “լորենի”, in Illustrated Polyglottic Dictionary of Plant Names, Cairo: Argus & Papazian Presses, § 3422, page 587

Further reading

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