բոյս

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Old Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH-ko-, from *bʰewH- (to grow)[1][2][3][4]

Noun[edit]

բոյս (boys)

  1. plant, vegetative body
    բոյս արձակելboys arjakelto bud, to pullulate
    բոյս բարուց, բոյսք բնութեան, բարք բուսոցboys barucʻ, boyskʻ bnutʻean, barkʻ busocʻnature, temper, natural character

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: բույս (buys)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1899) “Hübschmann H.: Armenische Grammatik. I. Theil. Armenische Etymologie. II. Abteilung. Die syrischen und griechischen Lehnwörter im Altarmenischen und die echtarmenischen Wörter”, in Indogermanische Forschungen. Anzeiger für indogermanische Sprach- und Altertumskunde. Beiblatt zu den Indogermanischen Forschungen (in German), volume 10, page 47 of 41–50
  2. ^ Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 42–43
  3. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բոյս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  4. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 187

Further reading[edit]

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բոյս”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բոյս”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy