pitik
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
Perhaps borrowed from a dialectal variant of Armenian պստիկ (pstik). Compare especially the form պտիկ (ptik).
Further reading
- Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 78
- Kurdojev, K. K. (1960), “pitik”, in Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Gosudarstvennoje izdatelʹstvo inostrannyx i nacionalʹnyx slovarej, page 620b
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