ալիւր

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

• ալեւր (alewr)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂leh₁wr̥. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄλευρον (áleuron, “flour”). Related to աղամ (ałam, “to grind”).

Ačaṙean explains the genitive-dative ալեր (aler) by contraction from *ալեւեր (*alewer), the supposed regular genitive-dative of r-type ալեւր (alewr). See also գիւղ (giwł).

Noun

ալիւր • (aliwr)

1. flour

   ցանել զալիւր ի վերայ ― cʻanel zaliwr i veray ― to powder or whiten with flour

2. (by extension) any fine powder

   ալիւր գործելւոյ ― aliwr gorcelwoy ― fine coal powder

Declension

r/ł-type

	singular (uncountable)
nominative	ալիւր (aliwr)
genitive	ալեր (aler)
dative	ալեր (aler)
accusative	ալիւր (aliwr)
ablative	ալերէ (alerē)
instrumental	ալերբ (alerb)
locative	ալեր (aler)

o-type

	singular (uncountable)
nominative	ալիւր (aliwr)
genitive	ալիւրոյ (aliwroy)
dative	ալիւրոյ (aliwroy)
accusative	ալիւր (aliwr)
ablative	ալիւրոյ (aliwroy)
instrumental	ալիւրով (aliwrov)
locative	ալիւր (aliwr)
post-classical

o-type

	singular (uncountable)
nominative	ալիւր (aliwr)
genitive	ալերոյ (aleroy)
dative	ալերոյ (aleroy)
accusative	ալիւր (aliwr)
ablative	ալերոյ (aleroy)
instrumental	ալերով (alerov)
locative	ալիւր (aliwr)
post-classical

Derived terms

• ալիւրադիւթ (aliwradiwtʻ)
• գարէալիւր (garēaliwr)

Descendants

• Armenian: ալյուր (alyur)

References

• Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 34
• Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1944) “Haykakankʻ A [Armeniaca I]”, in HSSṘ GA Teġekagir hasarakakan gitutʻyunneri [Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR: Social Sciences]‎^[1] (in Armenian), number 5, page 29 of 25–30
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ալիւր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “Haykakankʻ (Armeniaca)”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 628a
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ալիւր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “alewr”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 13
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (2017) “Part 9: Armenian”, in Kapović, Mate, editor, The Indo-European Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), 2nd edition, London, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 429
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ալիւր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy