Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Perhaps from *ձուլ (*jul, plough), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoh₁-(ō)l, and related to ձող (joł). Alternatively, a misspelling of ցելում (cʻelum).

Verb edit

ձլեմ (jlem)

  1. (transitive) to furrow

Usage notes edit

The word is a hapax legomenon.

Conjugation edit

References edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ձլել”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 435, 437