Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Old Armenian խուց (xucʻ).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

խուց (xucʻ)

  1. small chamber, cell

Declension edit

Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

A Semitic borrowing. Compare Akkadian 𒄷𒊻𒍮 (/⁠ḫuṣṣu⁠/, reed fence or wall; a hut or shack made of reeds), Aramaic חוצ (ḥūṣ, palm leaf; things made out of palm fibers; hut, cell), Hebrew חוץ (xūṣ).

Noun edit

խուց (xucʻ)

  1. small chamber, cell

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: խուց (xucʻ)

Further reading edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “խուց”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “խուց”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “խուց”, 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 335