վարսակ

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian վարսակ (varsak).

Pronunciation

Noun

վարսակ (varsak)

  1. oat

Declension

Derived terms

  • վարսակահատ (varsakahat)
  • վարսակաձավարվարսակալյուր (varsakajavarvarsakalyur)
  • վարսակաշիլա (varsakašila)
  • վարսակապուր (varsakapur)

Old Armenian

Etymology

From վարս (vars, hair) + -ակ (-ak), thus "hairy plant" because of its long awns.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Typologically compare աշորա (ašora).

Noun

վարսակ (varsak)

  1. oat

Declension

Descendants

  • Armenian: վարսակ (varsak)

References

  1. Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), վարսակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 798a
  2. Lagarde, Paul de (1854) Zur Urgeschichte der Armenier: ein philologischer Versuch (in German), Berlin: W. Hertz, § 669, page 25
  3. Lagarde, Paul de (1877) Armenische Studien (in German), Göttingen: Dieterich, § 2117, page 143
  4. Patrubany, Luc de (1907–1908), “Étymologies indo-européennes”, in Le Monde Oriental (in French), volume II, fascicle 3, Uppsala, page 221
  5. Petersson, Herbert (1920) Arische und armenische Studien (Lunds Universitets Årsskrift N.F. Avd. 1, Bd. 16. Nr. 3) (in German), Lund, Leipzig, page 97
  6. Bailey, H. W. (1987), “Armenia and Iran IV. Iranian influences in Armenian 2. Iranian loanwords in Armenian”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica, volume 2, London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 462b of 459–465

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), վարսակ”, 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 424–425
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 246
  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), վարսակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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