Ποντικόν κάρυον
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- κάρυον Ποντικόν (káruon Pontikón)
Etymology
[edit]Ποντικόν (Pontikón, “Pontic”) κάρυον (káruon, “nut”). From the nut's indigenousness and abundance in Pontus, a former Hellenic kingdom in northern Anatolia along the southern shore of the Black Sea.
Noun
[edit]Ποντικόν κάρυον • (Pontikón káruon)
Synonyms
[edit]- καρύα Ποντικά (karúa Pontiká)
Descendants
[edit]- → Middle Persian: pndk' (*pondik)
- Persian: پندک (pondok)
- → Arabic: بُنْدُق (bunduq), فُنْدُق (funduq), بُنْدُوق (bundūq) — archaic, dialectal
- Andalusian Arabic: بندق (bunduq)
- Hijazi Arabic: بندق (bundug)
- → Amharic: ቡንዱቅ (bunduḳ)
- → Armenian: պնդուկ (pnduk)
- → French: bonduc
- → English: bonduc
- → Ge'ez: መንዱቅ (mänduḳ, “rifle”)
- → Persian: بندق (bondoq), فندق (fondoq, fandoq, “hazelnut”) (see there for further descendants), بندوق (bonduq, “rifle”)
- → Mehri: məndáwḳ (“rifle”)
- → Shehri: məndíḳ
- → Swahili: bunduki (“rifle”) (see there for further descendants)
- → Tigre: መንዱቅ (mänduḳ)
- → Classical Syriac: ܦܢܕܩܐ (pendəqā)
- Latin: nux Pontica (calque)
References
[edit]- “Ποντικόν κάρυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Aʿlam, H. (2014 March 29 (last accessed)) “HAZELNUT”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York
- Bläsing, Uwe (2019) “Die armenischen Pflanzennamen in Peter Simon Pallas’ Flora Rossica. Eine Studie zu Etymologie und sprachlicher Interaktion”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15) (in German), Leuven: Peeters, pages 25–27