սունկն

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

  • սունգն (sungn), սունկ (sunk), սունգ (sung)

Etymology

Connected with Ancient Greek σπόγγος (spóngos), σφόγγος (sphóngos) and Latin fungus, and together with them probably borrowed from a Mediterranean–Pontic substrate source.[1][2] Possibly also related to Georgian სოკო (soḳo), Tsez зикӏу (zik’u), Bezhta сакӏо (sakʼo), Moksha панга (panga) and Erzya панго (pango, mushroom).

Noun

սունկն (sunkn)

  1. tree-mushroom
  2. (pathology) mushroom-like abscess

Declension

Descendants

  • Armenian: սունկ (sunk)
    • Zazaki: sûng, sıng

References

  1. Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), սունկն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 251–252
  2. Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 586–587

Further reading

  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), սունկ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 732a
  • Greppin, John A. C. (2010), “Urartian Sibilants in Armenian”, in Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, volume 4, issue 1, page 180b of 179–182
  • Łazaryan, Ṙ. S.; Avetisyan, H. M. (2009), սունկ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 711b
  • Łazaryan, Ṙ. S.; Avetisyan, H. M. (2009), սունկն”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 711b
  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), սունկ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 648b
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