Talk:գերանդի
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Vahagn Petrosyan
@Vahagn Petrosyan: I found Sivandi kelénd "hammer" and Persian kaland "mattock".--Calak (talk) 07:09, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Calak: Asatrian treats the Persian in his 2011 dictionary, page 222. What does he say? I don't like Martirosyan's etymology. Perhaps we can look for an Iranian origin. --Vahag (talk) 11:25, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
- Compare Persian kanand, Baxtiari kaland-, from the root *kan- "to dig" with verbal suffix *-ant/*-ņt; so it means "digger".--Calak (talk) 11:34, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
- That's a good etymology for "mattock", but not for "scythe", which is a cutting tool. --Vahag (talk) 12:50, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
- Compare Persian kanand, Baxtiari kaland-, from the root *kan- "to dig" with verbal suffix *-ant/*-ņt; so it means "digger".--Calak (talk) 11:34, 11 May 2019 (UTC)