ճճի

Old Armenian edit

An ideophone^[1] for a squishy bug, with parallels in the languages of the Caucasus: compare Georgian ჭია (č̣ia), ჭუა (č̣ua), ჭიაჭუა (č̣iač̣ua), Laz წიწი (ǯiǯi), Budukh чич (čič), Kryts çiç (“worm”). Note also Middle Armenian ճիճու լինել (čiču linel, “to be squashed”) and Proto-Kartvelian *čečw- ~ *ččw- (“to soften”) (whence Georgian ჩვილი (čvili)).

ճճի • (čči)

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Middle Armenian: ճճի (čči), ճճու (čču), ճիճու (čiču)
- Armenian: ճիճու (čiču), ճըջու (čəǰu); ճիջու (čiǰu); ջիջի (ǰiǰi); ճո̈ւճո̈ւ (čüčü); ջիջու (ǰiǰu); ջուջու (ǰuǰu);
  - → Azerbaijani: cücü
  - → Turkish: cici, cucu, cücü

^ Inčičean, Ġukas (1835) Hnaxōsutʻiwn ašxarhagrakan Hayastaneaycʻ ašxarhi [National antiquities of Armenia] (in Old Armenian), volume III, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 21

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Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 939
Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ճճի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy