ձիւթ

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

ձիւթ • (jiwtʿ)

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 očʿ dadarēin orkʿ arkin znosa spasaworkʿ tʿagaworin i hnocʿn borbokʿeloy nawtʿiw ew jitʿov ew všov ew ortʿov:

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

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “ձիւթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 154ab
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “ձիւթ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; 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, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “ձիւթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy