կնգմենի

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian կնգմենի (kngmeni).

Pronunciation

Noun

կնգմենի • (kngmeni)

  1. ermine fur

Declension

Old Armenian

Etymology

From *կնգում (*kngum, ermine) + -ենի (-eni, fur-suffix). The animal name *կնգում (*kngum), which is not attested in Old Armenian, is a borrowing of unknown origin, related to Middle Persian kʾkwm (/⁠kākom⁠/, stoat).[1] Perhaps borrowed from the Middle Persian, if the -ն- (-n-) can be explained as a nasal epenthesis or a misspelling of -ա- (-a-).

Noun

կնգմենի • (kngmeni)

  1. ermine fur
    • 5th century, Pʻawstos Buzand, Hayoc Patmutʻiwnʻ [History of the Armenians] :
      Եւ ինքն Զաւէնն աթինեալս եւ զտապակեալս զժապաւինեալս նարօտօք ագանէր, զսամուրենիս եւ զկնգմենիս եւ զգայլենիս ագանէր []
      Ew inkʻn Zawēnn atʻineals ew ztapakeals zžapawineals narōtōkʻ aganēr, zsamurenis ew zkngmenis ew zgaylenis aganēr []

Descendants

  • Armenian: կնգմենի (kngmeni), կնգում (kngum)

References

  1. Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կնգում”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 607ab

Further reading

  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “կնգմենի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1882) “Armeniaca. III”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 36, page 134
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1892) “Die semitischen Lehnwörter im Altarmenischen”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 46, page 267
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 278
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “կնգում”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, pages 411–412
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 161–162, 736
  • Müller, Friedrich (1894) “Pahlawi, neupersische und armenische Etymologien”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 8, page 285
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “կնգմենի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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