կեչի

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Related to Old Armenian կեչի (kečʻi, larch).

J̌ahukyan considers this borrowed from Uralic (compare Proto-Finnic *kaski) and wonders about the path of derivation.[6][7]

Martirosyan tentatively suggests derivation from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-yeh₂-, from *gʷet- (resin).[8]

Pronunciation

Noun

կեչի • (kečʻi)

  1. birch (Betula)

Declension

  • (perhaps) գենչենի (genčʻeni), գենչանի (genčʻani, a kind of tree with reddish bark that kindles like a candle) Sasun

References

  1. Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “կեչի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui. Yaweluac ašxarhik baṙkʻ anvkaykʻ i grocʻ aṙ mez ełelocʻ [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Appendix of Dialectal Words] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 1064a
  2. Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “կեծի”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 1388, page 310
  3. Amatuni, Sahak (1912) “կեչի”, in Hayocʻ baṙ u ban [Armenian Words and Idioms] (in Armenian), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 337b
  4. Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “կեչի”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 563b
  5. Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “կեչի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui. Yaweluac ašxarhik baṙkʻ anvkaykʻ i grocʻ aṙ mez ełelocʻ [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Appendix of Dialectal Words] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 1064b
  6. J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 296
  7. J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “կեչի”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 400a
  8. Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 359

Further reading

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

  • կեծի (keci)[1]

Etymology

The origin is uncertain. See Armenian կեչի (kečʻi, birch).

Noun

կեչի • (kečʻi)

  1. European larch (Larix decidua)[1]

References

  1. Greppin, John A. C. (1985) Baṙkʿ Gaɫianosi: The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 69
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