թիւր

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Old Armenian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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The origin is uncertain. According to Petersson, from Proto-Indo-European *tēkro-, a derivative of *tek- (to weave), whence also թեքեմ (tʻekʻem, to fashion, forge, make).[1][2][3]

Adjective

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թիւր (tʻiwr)

  1. twisted, crooked, oblique, stunted
  2. erroneous, mistaken
  3. perverse, froward

Declension

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Adverb

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թիւր (tʻiwr)

  1. wrongfully, awry, obliquely; crookedly
    թիւր մեկնել, խօսելtʻiwr meknel, xōselto interpret malignantly, to misconstrue; to preach a perverse doctrine

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Middle Armenian: թոյր (tʻoyr)
  • Armenian: թյուր (tʻyur) (learned)

References

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  1. ^ Petersson, Herbert (1916) Baltisches und Slavisches (Lunds Universitets Årsskrift N.F. Avd. 1, Bd. 12. Nr. 2) (in German), Lund and Leipzig, page 77
  2. ^ Walde, Alois (1930) Julius Pokorny, editor, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume I, Berlin: de Gruyter, page 716
  3. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “tek-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1058

Further reading

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