# կեչի
## Armenian
### Alternative forms

* կեչի (kečʻi) — Ararat, Lori, Karabakh, Shirak, Mush
* կիչի (kičʻi) — Karabakh
* կչի (kčʻi), կըչի (kəčʻi)
* կեծի (keci)

### Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Related to Old Armenian կեչի (kečʻi, “larch”).
J̌ahukyan considers this borrowed from Uralic (compare Proto-Finnic *kaski) and wonders about the path of derivation.
Martirosyan tentatively suggests derivation from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-yeh₂-, from *gʷet- (“resin”).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /keˈt͡ʃʰi/, [ket͡ʃʰí]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /ɡeˈt͡ʃi/, [ɡet͡ʃʰí]
* Audio (Eastern Armenian):(file)
* Hyphenation: կե‧չի

### Noun

կեչի • (kečʻi)
* birch (Betula)

#### Related terms

* (perhaps) գենչենի (genčʻeni), գենչանի (genčʻani, “a kind of tree with reddish bark that kindles like a candle”) — Sasun

### References

* ↑ Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “կեչի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui. Yaweluac ašxarhik baṙkʻ anvkaykʻ i grocʻ aṙ mez ełelocʻ [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Appendix of Dialectal Words] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 1064a
* 1 2 3 4 Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “կեծի”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 1388, page 310
* ↑ Amatuni, Sahak (1912) “կեչի”, in Hayocʻ baṙ u ban [Armenian Words and Idioms] (in Armenian), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 337b
* 1 2 Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “կեչի”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 563b
* ↑ Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “կեչի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui. Yaweluac ašxarhik baṙkʻ anvkaykʻ i grocʻ aṙ mez ełelocʻ [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Appendix of Dialectal Words] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 1064b
* ↑ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 296
* ↑ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “կեչի”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 400a
* ↑ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 359

### Further reading

* Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “կեչի”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 1392, page 311

## Old Armenian
### Alternative forms

* կեծի (keci)

### Etymology

The origin is uncertain. See Armenian կեչի (kečʻi, “birch”).

### Noun

կեչի • (kečʻi)
* European larch (Larix decidua)
** 6th–12th? centuries, Baṙkʻ Gałianosi [The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen] :ղորկա, ղորկայ, ղոկա [=λάριξ]· կեծի, կեչիłorka, łorkay, łoka [=λάριξ]· keci, kečʻi

### References

* 1 2 Greppin, John A. C. (1985) Baṙkʿ Gaɫianosi: The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen‎, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 69