փետուր

Borrowed from Old Armenian փետուր (pʿetur).

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• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [pʰɛˈtuɾ]

փետուր • (pʿetur)

1. feather

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “փետուր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 498–499

• փայտուր (pʿaytur)

The etymology remains uncertain.

Since long connected with the descendants of Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (“wing; feather”), but Armenian is usually not considered to be inherited from the latter because of phonological problems (e.g. Proto-Indo-European *pe- would yield Old Armenian հե- (he-)). Ačaṙyan and J̌ahukyan imply, that we may be dealing with an early borrowing from some descendant of that Proto-Indo-European root, Ačaṙyan pointing specifically to Hittite [script needed] n (pattar, “wing”), which should perhaps be read as pettar.

On the other hand, Martirosyan and Simon are more positive about the inheritance, Martirosyan reconstructing a nominative singular auslaut *-ōr with a question mark.

In Middle Armenian and dialects the form թեպուր (tʿepur) is also attested.

փետուր • (pʿetur)

1. feather

   նուրբ, մանր փետուրք ― nurb, manr pʿeturkʿ ― down, soft feathers

   խոշոր փետուրք ― xošor pʿeturkʿ ― master or longest quills

   յարդարել զփետուրս ― yardarel zpʿeturs ― to preen, cleanse or dress the feathers

   աւել ի փետրոց ― awel i pʿetrocʿ ― featherbroom

• Armenian: փետուր (pʿetur)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “փետուր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 498–499
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “փետուր”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Fortson, Benjamin W. (2010) Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, second edition, Oxford: Blackwell, page 386
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 500–501
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 262
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “փետուր”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 763a
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), “tʿitʿełn”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 293
• Simon, Zsolt (2013), “Die These der hethitisch-luwischen Lehnwörter im Armenischen: eine kritische Neubetrachtung”, in International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction‎ (in German), volume 10, issue 2, page 110
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “փետուր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy