կապիճ

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian կապիճ (kapič). Doublet of կապիծ (kapic) and կապեճ (kapeč).

Pronunciation

Noun

կապիճ • (kapič)

  1. (historical) a grain measure, equal to 1/10 գրիւ (griw)
  2. (anatomy) eye socket
    Synonym: ակնակապիճ (aknakapič)

Declension

Old Armenian

Etymology

An Iranian borrowing: compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kpyc, a grain measure).[1][2][3][4][5] See Arabic قَفِيز (qafīz) for more.

In the dialects survives in Moks կապաիճ (kapaič, unit of measure equal to 5–6 kilograms),[6] Mush կապեճ (kapeč, hay of grass and wheat),[7] Hamshen կապճակ (kapčak, tithe of wheat given to miller) and կապիծ (kapic), the latter a borrowing from Laz კაპიწი (ǩap̌iǯi).[2]

Noun

կապիճ • (kapič)

  1. a grain measure, equal to 1/10 գրիւ (griw)
  2. a wine measure
  3. (anatomy) eye socket
  4. gaiters or some kind of torture instrument for the legs
  5. a kind of tax

Declension

Derived terms

  • ակնակապիճք (aknakapičkʻ)
  • ակնկապիճք (aknkapičkʻ)
  • կապճաթիւ (kapčatʻiw)
  • կապճահամար (kapčahamar)
  • կապճեան (kapčean)

Descendants

  • Middle Armenian: կապիճ (kapič)
  • Armenian: կապեճ (kapeč), կապաիճ (kapaič)
  • Armenian: կապճակ (kapčak)
  • Armenian: կապիճ (kapič)
  • Old Georgian: კაპიჭი (ḳaṗič̣i)

References

  1. Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 165
  2. Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կապիճ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 525ab
  3. Schmitt, Rüdiger (1983) “Iranisches Lehngut im Armenischen”, in Revue des Études Arméniennes (in German), volume 17, page 91
  4. Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 887
  5. Ciancaglini, Claudia A. (2008) Iranian loanwords in Syriac (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 28), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 250
  6. Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2004), “կապիճ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 44a
  7. Amatuni, Sahak (1912) “բարդոց”, in Hayocʻ baṙ u ban [Armenian Words and Idioms] (in Armenian), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 91b

Further reading

  • Ritner, Robert Kriech (1996) “The Earliest Attestation of the kpḏ-Measure”, in Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson, volume 2, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, →ISBN, pages 683–688
  • Schmitt, Rüdiger (2007) “Brust, M.: Die indischen und iranischen Lehnwörter im Griechischen”, in Kratylos, volume 52, page 82
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