լուսանունք

Old Armenian

Etymology

Attested only once, in the plural. The singular can be reconstructed as *լուսանն (*lusann) or *լուսան (*lusan), theoretically also as *լուսանուն (*lusanun). Related to Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx), Proto-Slavic *rysь, Lithuanian lūšis, Proto-Germanic *luhsaz and inherited from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.

Noun

լուսանունք • (lusanunkʻ) (nominative plural)

1. lynxes
   • 5th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Alexander Romance :

     […] և լուսանունք (var. լոյսանունք, լուսանիւթք) և ինձք և վագերք և կարճագիք և փիղք և եզնախոյք և զուարակափիղք […]

     […] ew lusanunkʻ (var. loysanunkʻ, lusaniwtʻkʻ) ew injkʻ ew vagerkʻ ew karčagikʻ ew pʻiłkʻ ew eznaxoykʻ ew zuarakapʻiłkʻ […]

     • Translation by Albert M. Wolohojian

       […] and lynxes, leopards, and tigers, and scorpions, and elephants, and wild oxen, and bull elephants […]

Related terms

• լոյս (loys)

Descendants

• Armenian: → լուսան (lusan) (learned), > (Karabakh) լո̈ւսէմնը (lüsēmnə) (inherited), > (Ghazakh) լիսամ (lisam) (inherited)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “լուսան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 302–303
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “լուսանուն”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 898c
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 454
• Müller, Friedrich (1890) “Armeniaca VI”, in Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Classe (in German), volume 122, page 3