Armenian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Originally a dialectal word, from Old Armenian թուխս (tʻuxs), the frozen plural accusative-locative of թուխ (tʻux), commonly used in the phrase ի թուխս նստել (i tʻuxs nstel).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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թուխս (tʻuxs)

  1. the act of sitting on eggs, brooding, hatching (of birds)
  2. brood hen

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Northern Kurdish: tuxs
  • Turkish: tuḫs, tusḫ, tuhs, tush, tusk, tusku, tuğs

Further reading

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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “թուխ”, 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 203–204
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 49