բոյն

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH-no-, from *bʰewH- (“to be; to grow”).

բոյն • (boyn)

1. nest of a bird

   բոյն դնել, կառուցանել ― boyn dnel, kaṙucʻanel ― to nestle, to make one's nest

   հանել ի բունոյ ― hanel i bunoy ― to take out of the nest

2. (by extension) den, lair, kennel, burrow, hole of other animals
3. hut, shack of a human
4. niche, hole

• Armenian: բույն (buyn), բուն (bun)
• → Bats: ბე^ნ (beⁿ)
• → Chechen: бен (ben)
• → Ingush: бӏи (bˀi)
• ⇒ Old Armenian: *բունակ (*bunak)
  • → Georgian: ბუნაგი (bunagi)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բոյն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բոյն”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բոյն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “բոյն”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 187