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Latest comment: 5 years ago by Vahagn Petrosyan

Is it farfetched to assume that քուրջ (kʻurǰ, Sack) is actually the same word as քուրձ (kʻurj, Sack)? The meaning is almost the same (old cloth and sack-cloth that is worn), and the third consonant is where Semitic is varied too. Even the variant խորգ (xorg) is in the tolerance and mirrors Arabic varying between ك (k) and خ (). @Vahagn Petrosyan Fay Freak (talk) 13:03, 9 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

@Fay Freak, it is not far-fetched and in fact the comparison has been made by others (I added it). But the alternation ջ (ǰ) ~ ձ (j) cannot be explained within Armenian. It can be explained within Iranian: compare the etymon of գանձ (ganj) versus Persian گنج (ganǰ). --Vahag (talk) 13:51, 9 February 2019 (UTC)Reply