pirûd

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Old Armenian բրուտ (brut, “potter”), from Hittite 𒁍𒊒𒌓 (/⁠purut⁠/, “mud”). Borrowed from a Western Armenian dialect.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pɪˈɾuːd/

Noun

pirûd m or f

  1. potter

References
  • Greppin, John A. C. (1991) “The Survival of Ancient Anatolian and Mesopotamian Vocabulary Until the Present”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies‎, volume 50, number 3, pages 203–207
  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “pirûd”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 458
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