Ποντικόν κάρυον

From Ποντικόν (Pontikón, “of Pontus”), from Πόντος (Póntos, “Pontus, a region on the southeastern shores of the Black Sea”), + κάρυον (káruon, “nut”). The name is referring to the fruit’s indigenousness and abundance in Pontus. Compare Latin nux Pontica (“hazelnut”).

Ποντικόν κάρυον • (Pontikón káruon)

1. hazelnut

• καρύα Ποντικά (karúa Pontiká)

• → Middle Persian: pndk' (*pondik) (possibly)
  • Persian: پندک‎ (pondok)
  • → Arabic: بُنْدُق‎ (bunduq), بُنْدُقَة‎ (bunduqa(t)), فُنْدُق‎ (funduq)
    • Andalusian Arabic: بندق‎ (bunduq)
      • → Portuguese: almôndega
      • → Spanish: albóndiga
        • → Ladino: albóndiga
    • → Azeri: fındıq
    • → Armenian:
      • Armenian: պնդուկ (pnduk), ֆնդուղ (fnduł)
      • Middle Armenian: պնդուխ (pndux)
      • Old Armenian: պնդեղ (pndeł)
    • → Bashkir: фундук (funduk)
    • → Chuvash: фундук (funduk)
    • → Tatar: фундук (funduq)
    • → Persian: فندق‎ (fondoq, fandoq), بندق‎ (bondoq)
      • Tajik: фундуқ (funduq), фандуқ (fanduq)
      • → Hindustani:

        Urdu: فندق‎ (funduq, finduq, fanduq)

      • → Ottoman Turkish: فندق‎ (funduq, fındıq), بندق‎ (bunduq)
        • Turkish: fındık, funduk
        • → Crimean Tatar: fındıq, funduq
          • → Russian: фунду́к (fundúk)
            • → Belarusian: фунду́к (fundúk)
            • → Estonian: fundukk
            • → Ukrainian: фунду́к (fundúk)
        • → Greek: φουντούκι (fountoúki)
        • → Romanian: funduc
  • → Classical Syriac: ܦܢܕܩܐ‎ (pendəqā)

• Ποντικόν κάρυον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “պնդեղ”, 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, page 93a
• H. Aʿlam, “HAZELNUT,” Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, 2014, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hazelnut (accessed on 29 March 2014).