թուզ

From Old Armenian թուզ (tʿuz). For the sense of “vulva” Martirosyan compares dialectal Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon, “fig; vulva”) and German Feige (“fig; vulva”).

• IPA^(key): [tʰuz]

թուզ • (tʿuz)

1. fig (fruit)
2. (dialectal) vulva

• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), “t‘uz”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 295

Since long connected with Latin fīcus and Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon), τῦκον (tûkon), and considered a borrowing from a Mediterranean or an Anatolian substrate source. Martirosyan reconstructs a Mediterranean *tʰuōiḱo- or *tʰū(i)ḱo- (“fig”).

թուզ • (tʿuz)

1. fig (fruit)

   պաղատիտ թզոց ― pałatit tʿzocʿ ― dried-fig

   բլիթ թզոյ ― blitʿ tʿzoy ― cake of figs

   ծառ թզոյ ― caṙ tʿzoy ― fig-tree

2. (pathology) fig-like tumour

• Armenian: թուզ (tʿuz)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “թուզ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “թուզ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “թուզ”, 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), “t‘uz”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 295
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2013), “The place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family: the relationship with Greek and Indo-Iranian”, in Journal of Language Relationship‎, issue 10, § 6.4.4., page 117