մամուռ

Armenian

Etymology

From Old Armenian մամուռ (mamuṙ).

Pronunciation

Noun

մամուռ • (mamuṙ)

  1. moss

Declension

Derived terms

  • մամռապատ (mamṙapat)

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: mamır
  • Udi: мамыр (mamər)

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

  • մամուր (mamur)

Etymology

Perhaps a reduplication of *մուռ (*muṙ), from Proto-Armenian *mus-r-, from Proto-Indo-European *mus-ro-, and cognate with Proto-Germanic *musą, Proto-Slavic *mъxъ, Latin muscus, Lithuanian mūsaĩ, mū̃sos (mould) and especially Proto-Slavic *mъxrъ (thin moss on trees and stones).

Martirosyan notes that in a fairy-tale based on a folk-motif and written by Hovhannes Tumanyan, native of Loṙi, one finds dialectal մուռ (muṙ) referring to the green moss on stones in a river, which if reliable may be an archaic relic of the simplex *մուռ (*muṙ). See here for the passage. See also ջրիմուռ (ǰrimuṙ).

Noun

մամուռ • (mamuṙ)

  1. moss

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մամուռ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մամուռ”, 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) “mamuṙ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 446
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2009) “Armenian mawr ‘mud, marsh’ and its hydronimical value”, in Aramazd: Armenian journal of Near Eastern studies, volume 4, number 1, pages 73–85 and 179–180
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mъx(o)rъ/*mъxra”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 215
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մամուռ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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