lordu

• IPA^(key): /ˈl(ʷ)ɔɾ.d̪ːu/
• Hyphenation: lòr‧du

lordu (feminine singular lorda, masculine and feminine plural lordi)

1. Alternative form of lurdu m (regressively assimilated, italianized)

• IPA^(key): [ɫoɾˈdu]
• Hyphenation: lor‧du

lordu

1. accusative singular of lord
2. third-person singular possessive of lord

From Armenian լորտու (lortu) and its dialectal forms.

• loydu, loydi (Hemşin)
• lordi (Kemaliye)

lordu (Hemşin)

1. snail

   Synonym: salyangoz

2. slug

   Synonym: sümüklü böcek

• loydufes (“a poisonous mushroom”, literally “snail-cap”)

• “lordi”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977, page 3088a
• Bläsing, Uwe (1992) Armenisches Lehngut im Türkeitürkischen am Beispiel von Hemşin (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature; 2) (in German), Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, § 81, page 57
• Bläsing, Uwe (2007) “Armenian in the vocabulary and culture of the Turkish Hemshinli”, in Hovann H. Simonian, editor, The Hemshin: History, society and identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey (Peoples of the Caucasus)‎, London and New York: Routledge, page 293
• Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 207, page 55
• Emiroğlu, Kudret (1989) “gohlis”, in Trabzon-Maçka Etimoloji Sözlüğü [Trabzon-Maçka Etymological Dictionary]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Sanat Kitabevi, page 107b
• Öztürk, Özhan (2005) “loydu”, in Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük [Black Sea: Encyclopaedic Dictionary]‎ (in Turkish), volume II, Istanbul: Heyamola Yayınları, page 792a
• Tzitzilis, Christos (1987) Griechische Lehnwörter im Türkischen (mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der anatolischen Dialekte) (Schriften der Balkan-Kommission, philologische Abteilung; 33)‎ (in German), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, § 301, page 82, compares to Greek λιόρδα (liórda) glossing it as "snail", but in reality this is a dialectal form of λόρδα (lórda, “great hunger”) and is not related
• Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (2018) “lordu”, in Irfan Çağatay Aleksiva, editor, Titer: Hemşin Türkçesi Sözlüğü (in Turkish), Istanbul: Lazi Kültür, page 148
• Vardanyan, Sergey (2016) “Ġazaxstani, Ġrġzstani ew Tʻurkʻiayi mahmedakan hamšenahayericʻ graṙvac hayeren mi kʻani baṙeri masin [About Some Armenian Words Written from Muslim Hamshentsi Armenians of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎ (in Armenian), number 3, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 82 of 81–95