աղաւնի

From Proto-Armenian *aławun +‎ -ի (-i). Further origin is uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”). Alternatively, according to Martirosyan probably a borrowing from a Mediterranean substrate word of the form *pl̥h₂-bʰ-ōn, reflected also in Latin palumbēs, palumbus. See also սալամբ (salamb).

աղաւնի • (aławni)

1. dove, pigeon

   վայրի աղաւնի ― vayri aławni ― stock-dove, wood-pigeon, wild pigeon

• This is the only Old Armenian word in which the diphthong աւ (aw) did not turn into օ (ō) before a consonant. This is probably because the word was pronounced *aɫawəni.
• The word has two combining forms: աղաւնե- (aławne-) and աղաւնա- (aławna-).

• Armenian: աղավնի (ałavni), աղունիկ (ałunik)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “աղաւնի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “աղաւնի”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “աղաւնի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), “aɫawni”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 29