վիզ

Armenian

վիզ • (viz)

i-type, inanimate (Eastern Armenian)
	singular	plural
nominative	վիզ (viz)	վզեր (vzer)
dative	վզի (vzi)	վզերի (vzeri)
ablative	վզից (vzicʻ)	վզերից (vzericʻ)
instrumental	վզով (vzov)	վզերով (vzerov)
locative	վզում (vzum)	վզերում (vzerum)
	definite forms
nominative	վիզը/վիզն (vizə/vizn)	վզերը/վզերն (vzerə/vzern)
dative	վզին (vzin)	վզերին (vzerin)
	1^st person possessive forms (my)
nominative	վիզս (vizs)	վզերս (vzers)
dative	վզիս (vzis)	վզերիս (vzeris)
ablative	վզիցս (vzicʻs)	վզերիցս (vzericʻs)
instrumental	վզովս (vzovs)	վզերովս (vzerovs)
locative	վզումս (vzums)	վզերումս (vzerums)
	2^nd person possessive forms (your)
nominative	վիզդ (vizd)	վզերդ (vzerd)
dative	վզիդ (vzid)	վզերիդ (vzerid)
ablative	վզիցդ (vzicʻd)	վզերիցդ (vzericʻd)
instrumental	վզովդ (vzovd)	վզերովդ (vzerovd)
locative	վզումդ (vzumd)	վզերումդ (vzerumd)

Usually considered a word of unknown origin, but according to J̌ahukyan and Bailey this is an Iranian borrowing. Compare Avestan 𐬥𐬌𐬎𐬎𐬌𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (niuuizaⁱti, “attach”), from the base *viz-, *vaez- (“to attach, bind”), which goes back to Proto-Indo-European *weyǵ(ʰ)- and is cognate with Lithuanian výžti (“to plait”), Russian вязать (vjazatʹ), Old Prussian winsus (“neck”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn”): the neck is the “turning limb”.

վիզ • (viz)

neck
վիզ ամբառնալ ― viz ambaṙnal ― to become rebellious, proud, insubordinate

i-a-type

Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “վիզ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “վիզ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “վիզ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “վիզ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 711a
Bailey, H. W. (1979) “vīysānvā”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 387b
Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “awji-k‘”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 154, tentatively suggests a common substrate origin for վիզ (viz), օձիք (ōjikʻ), dialectal խզ- (xz-), խուզ- (xuz-) and Ancient Greek αὐχήν (aukhḗn).