տոլի

Middle Armenian

Alternative forms

• տոյլի (toyli), տելի (teli) — in the sense ‘vine’ only
• տավալի (tavali) — in the sense ‘varix’ only

Etymology

From Arabic دَوَالِي (dawālī), plural construct state of دَالِيَة (dāliya, “vine; varix”) or from its Classical Syriac cognate ܕܠܝ (dālī, “vine; varicose vein”). Compare also Old Armenian դոյլ (doyl, “pail, bucket”), which ultimately may be from the same Semitic root.

Has also been compared to Udi тӏул (ṭul, “grape”), Urartian 𒄑𒌌𒁲 (GIŠ.ul-di /⁠uldi, ulde, uduli⁠/, “vineyard”), Akkadian 𒄑𒆜𒆳 (/⁠tillatu⁠/, “vine”).

Noun

տոլի • (toli)

1. vine
2. (medicine) varix; varicosis

Descendants

• Armenian: դիլլա (dilla), դիլի (dili), տո̈ւլլա̈ (tüllä)
• Kurdish: (supposedly from a by-form *տըլի (*təli))

  → Northern Kurdish: tirî (“grapes”)

  → Central Kurdish: تِرێ (tirê)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “տոլի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 416ab
• Asatrian, Garnik (2009) “Prolegomena to the Study of the Kurds”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 13, number 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 39
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “տոյլի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 889b
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “տոլի”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 731b
• Ġapʻancʻyan, Grigor (1961) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun. Hin šrǰan [History of the Armenian Language. Ancient Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 137
• Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “տոլի”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 764a
• Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “տավալի”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 751a
• “dly”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎^[1], PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 28