կիւ

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo- (“pitch”) and cognate with Old Irish bí (“pitch”), Proto-Slavic *živica. Ultimately from either Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), because pitch is the plant’s ‘living material’, or *gyewh₁- (“to chew”), whence English chew, Russian жевать (ževatʹ).

կիւ • (kiw)

1. tree pitch, mastic, chewing-gum
2. pine-tree (?)

• կուենի (kueni)
• տիկնակիւ (tiknakiw)

• Armenian: կիվ (kiv)
• → Bats: კივ (ḳiv)
• → Old Georgian: კევი (ḳevi)
  • Georgian: კევი (ḳevi)
    • → Ingush: кӏув (kʼuv)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “կիւ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “կիւ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “կիւ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 366