թշու

Armenian

Alternative forms
  • թշով (tʿšov)

Etymology

A Turkic borrowing: compare Crimean Tatar tırşav, dialectal tışav, Tatar тышау (tışaw), Bashkir тышау (tışaw), dialectal Azerbaijani tuşağ, tuşax, dialectal Turkish duşak, doşak (“hobble”) etc, which are of native Turkic origin.[1]

Noun

թշու • (tʿšu)

  1. (dialectal, Nor Nakhichevan) hobble (used to fasten together the legs of a horse)
    Synonym: ոտնակապ (otnakap)

Usage notes

Because թշու (tʿšu) is not included in standard references apart from a few dictionaries,[2][3][4][5] and its place of attestation is unknown, it has been treated as a ghost word[6]. It should be recognized as belonging to the Nor Nakhichevan dialect, more properly spelled թշով (tʿšov) and with a derivative թշոնել (tʿšonel, “to hobble”).[7][8] Hence the closeness to Kipchak Turkic forms rather than to Anatolian Turkish and Azerbaijani.

Derived terms
  • թշոնել (tʿšonel, “to hobble”)

References
  1. Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages]‎ (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Nauka, page 306
  2. Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “թշու”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 226b
  3. Gayayean, Yovhannēs Tʿ. (1983), “թշու”, in Baṙaran Ganjaran Hayerēn Lezui [Dictionary Thesaurus of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 3rd edition, Beirut: Hamaskaïne W. Sethian Press
  4. Sukʿiasyan, A. M. (1967), “թշու”, in Ałayan Ē. B., Sewak G. G., editors, Hayocʿ lezvi homanišneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Synonyms] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press
  5. Sukʿiasyan, A. M. (2009), “թշու”, in Hayocʿ lezvi homanišneri bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Armenian Synonyms] (Haykakan matenašar Galust Kiwlpēnkean himnarkutʿean) (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
  6. Malxaseancʿ, Stepʿan (1944), “թշու”, in Hayerēn bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 115b
  7. Alaverdjan, S. Dz. (1997), “тшов, тшонэл”, in O. A. Sargsjan, editor, Armjano-russkij slovarʹ nornaxičevanskovo dialekta (zapadnoarmjanskovo jazyka) [Armenian–Russian Dictionary of Nor Nakhichevan Dialect (of Western Armenian)], Chaltyr: Self-published, page 45
  8. Malxasjan, A. G. (2001), “թշոնել”, in Armjansko-russkij slovarʹ dialekta donskix (naxičevanskix) armjan. Korni slov i familij [Armenian–Russian Dictionary of the Dialect of Don (Nakhichevan) Armenians. Roots of Words and Surnames], Rostov-on-Don: Izdatelʹstvo Severo-Kavkazskovo naučnovo centra vysšej školy, →ISBN, page 68
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