տուտն

• տտուն (ttun)

The origin is uncertain.

According to Petersson, from Proto-Indo-European *dud-, with cognates only in Germanic: Icelandic toti (“muzzle, snout”), tota (“tip of a sock”), dialectal Norwegian tota (“something protruding like a beak”), Middle Dutch tote (“the point or toe of a shoe”), Middle English tote, for which Petersson reconstructs Proto-Germanic *tutan-. Accepted by Ačaṙean and J̌ahukyan (with reservation).

Olsen remarks that տուտն (tutn), տտուն (ttun) looks like a word from child language.

Some researchers have speculated that the word can be seen in Hittite 𒋼𒊑𒀉𒋾𒌅𒌋𒉌𒅖 (te-ri-id-ti-tu-u-ni-i[š] /Terittituniš/, “the name of a Hayašan god”), which would then mean ‘deity with three tails’.

տուտն • (tutn)

1. tail
2. end
3. corner, fringe

• (tail): ագի (agi), ձետ (jet)

• Armenian: տուտ (tut)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “տուտն”, 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 430a
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), “տուտն”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, pages 292a
• J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1837), “տուտն”, in Baṙgirkʿ i barbaṙ hay ew italakan [Armenian–Italian Dictionary], volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 1395c
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 329
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “տուտն”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 735a
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 383
• 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 942
• Petersson, Herbert (1920) Arische und armenische Studien (Lunds Universitets Årsskrift N.F. Avd. 1, Bd. 16. Nr. 3) (in German), Lund, Leipzig, page 100
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “տուտն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 709a