թուզ

Inherited from Middle Armenian թուզ (tʻuz), from Old Armenian թուզ (tʻuz). For the sense of “vulva” Martirosyan compares dialectal Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon, “fig; vulva”) and German Feige (“fig; vulva”).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /tʰuz/, [tʰuz]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /tuz/, [tʰuz]

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թուզ • (tʻuz)

1. fig (fruit)
2. (dialectal) vulva

• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “t‘uz”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 295

From Old Armenian թուզ (tʻuz).

թուզ • (tʻuz)

1. fig (fruit)
2. (pathology) fig-like tumour

• թզկերուկ (tʻzkeruk)

• Armenian: թուզ (tʻuz)

• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “թուզ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “թուզ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 233

Since long connected with Latin fīcus and Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon), τῦκον (tûkon), and considered a borrowing from a Mediterranean or an Anatolian substrate source. Martirosyan reconstructs a Mediterranean *tʰuōiḱo- or *tʰū(i)ḱo- (“fig”).

թուզ • (tʻuz)

1. fig (fruit)

   պաղատիտ թզոց ― pałatit tʻzocʻ ― dried-fig

   բլիթ թզոյ ― blitʻ tʻzoy ― cake of figs

   ծառ թզոյ ― caṙ tʻzoy ― fig-tree

• Middle Armenian: թուզ (tʻuz)
  • Armenian: թուզ (tʻuz)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “թուզ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “թուզ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “թուզ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “t‘uz”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 295
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2013) “The place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family: the relationship with Greek and Indo-Iranian”, in Journal of Language Relationship‎^[1], number 10, § 6.4.4., page 117