թումնի

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

• թուրմն (tʻurmn)

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *te/om-(e)n- (“dark”).

Noun

թումնի • (tʻumni)

1. darkness

Derived terms

• թումնանամ (tʻumnanam)

References

• Eremia Meġrecʻi (1698) “թումնի”, in Baṙgirkʻ hayocʻ [Armenian Dictionary] (in Armenian), Livorno: Sargis Evdokiacʻi Sahetʻči Press
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “թուրմն”, 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, page 296