կորդ

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Armenian կորդ (kord); see it for more.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

կորդ (kord) (superlative ամենակորդ)

  1. unploughed, uncultivated (of land, ground)
  2. (dialectal) hard

Declension[edit]

Noun[edit]

կորդ (kord)

  1. unploughed, uncultivated land

Declension[edit]

Old Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

The origin is uncertain. Perhaps related to խորթ (xortʻ). Or derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰordʰo- and cognate with Proto-Slavic *gordъ, Proto-Germanic *gardaz; the basic meaning of Armenian would then be ‘(enclosed) pasture-land, pen, etc.’

Adjective[edit]

կորդ (kord)

  1. unploughed (of land, ground)

Declension[edit]

Noun[edit]

կորդ (kord)

  1. *meadow
  2. *uncultivated ground/earth

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: կորդ (kord)
  • Georgian: კორდი (ḳordi)
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: kord

References[edit]

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “կորդ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “կորդ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “կորդ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 375
  • Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate[1], PhD dissertation, Leiden University, pages 26-27