պոյտն

• բոյտն (boytn)
• պոյտ (poyt) (post-classical)

The origin is uncertain.

Petersson connected with Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), deriving պոյտն (poytn) from Proto-Indo-European *bewd-no- or *bowd-no and the Germanic word from *bud-nó-, both from the root *bewd-, *bud- (“to swell”). This is accepted by Pokorny and J̌ahukyan, but rejected by Ačaṙyan, who considers the Germanic to be borrowed from Medieval Latin pottus, potus (“pot”).

Olsen puts պոյտն (poytn) in her list of words of unknown origin, writing “loan or inheritance?”.

պոյտն • (poytn)

1. pot, earthen pot

• Armenian: պույտ (puyt)

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• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 115
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• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 956