յորձ

Literally means “provided with testicles”, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-h₃orǵʰi- (“uncastrated, male (ram or buck)”) and cognate with Ancient Greek ἔνορχις (énorkhis), ἐνόρχης (enórkhēs), ἔνορχος (énorkhos, “uncastrated, with testicles; he-goat”). For the constituents see յ- (y-), որձիք (orjikʻ).

յորձ • (yorj)

1. male sheep, ram

• →? Proto-Georgian-Zan: *werʒ₁- (from Proto-Armenian)

• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “*orj-i-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 538
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “յորձ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “որձ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press