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մաթզի

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Middle Armenian

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Etymology

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From *մաթուզ (*matʻuz) +‎ (-i). See մաթուզ (matʻuz).

Noun

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մաթզի (matʻzi)

  1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
    • 13th century, Girkʻ Vastakocʻ [Geoponica] 244:[1]
      Եւ թէ բնութեամբ ուզես որ կարմիր լինի, ի մաթզի (var. մաթըզի) ծառի տակն պատրուսեա զխնձորենին, նա լինի խնձորն կարմիր եւ քաղցր:
      Ew tʻē bnutʻeamb uzes or karmir lini, i matʻzi (var. matʻəzi) caṙi takn patrusea zxnjorenin, na lini xnjorn karmir ew kʻaġcʻr:

Descendants

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  • Armenian: մաթզի (matʻzi)

References

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  1. ^ Ališan Ġ., editor (1877), Girkʻ vastakocʻ [Geoponica], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 155

Further reading

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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մաթզի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, pages 223–224
  • Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “մաթուզենի, մաթուզի”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 1930, page 410
  • Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “մաթզի”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 483a
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “մաթզի”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries]‎[1], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 480
  • Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1877) “մաթըզի կամ մաթուզենի”, in “Baṙkʻ Vastakocʻ grocʻ [A vocabulary to Geoponica]”, in Ġewond Ališan, editor, Girkʻ vastakocʻ [Geoponica] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 252