ձիւթ

A Semitic borrowing. See Arabic زِفْت (zift) for more. For ձ- (j-) compare ձէթ (jētʻ).

ձիւթ • (jiwtʻ)

1. pitch (a dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar)
   • 5th century, Bible, Daniel 3.46:[1]

     Եւ ոչ դադարէին որք արկին զնոսա սպասաւորք թագաւորին ի հնոցն բորբոքելոյ նաւթիւ եւ ձիթով եւ վշով եւ որթով:

     Ew očʻ dadarēin orkʻ arkin znosa spasaworkʻ tʻagaworin i hnocʻn borbokʻeloy nawtʻiw ew jitʻov ew všov ew ortʻov:

     • Translation by New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

       Now the king’s servants who threw them in kept stoking the furnace with naphtha, pitch, tow, and brushwood.

• Armenian: ձյութ (jyutʻ)
• → Old Georgian: ძივთი (ʒivti) (or directly from Semitic)
  • Georgian: (Guria) ძინთი (ʒinti), (Chveneburi, Javakheti) ძივთი (ʒivti), ზივთი (zivti)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “ձիւթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 154ab
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ձիւթ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 458
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 185, 310
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ձիւթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy