# արծուի
## Old Armenian
### Alternative forms

* արծիւ (arciw) — post-Classical

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵipyós. Cognate with Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr̥ȷ́ipyás and possibly Ancient Greek αἰγίπιος (aigípios, “vulture”).
Urartian 𒅈𒍢𒁉𒉌 (ar-ṣi-bi-ni /⁠Arṣibini⁠/), attested as a name of a horse, possibly meaning ‘Eagle’, and the theonym 𒀭𒅈𒍢𒁁𒁲𒉌𒂊 ($^d$ar-ṣi-be-di-ni-e /⁠Arṣibedini⁠/), are borrowed from Proto-Armenian. The element di- in the theonym may reflect Old Armenian դի-ք (di-kʻ, “gods”).

### Noun

արծուի • (arcui)
* eagle
** 5th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Baroyaxōs [Physiologus] Earliest recension (TR).9.2:Բարոյախաւսն ասէ զարծւոյ, թէ յորժամ ծերանայ, ծանրանան թեւքն նորա, եւ շլանան աչքն։Baroyaxawsn asē zarcwoy, tʻē yoržam ceranay, canranan tʻewkʻn nora, ew šlanan ačʻkʻn.Translation by Gohar MuradyanPhysiologus says about the eagle that when it grows old, its wings become heavy and its eyes grow dim.
* (astronomy) Aquila

#### Usage notes

* Has three combining forms: արծուե- (arcue-), արծուա- (arcua-), արծ- (arc-). The last two are post-classical, and are from the form արծիւ (arciw).
* In the Physiologus, translates Ancient Greek ἀετός (aetós).

#### Derived terms

* արծուաբեր (arcuaber)
* արծուաթռիչ (arcuatʻṙičʻ)
* արծուակերպ (arcuakerp)
* արծուաճանկ (arcuačank)
* արծուանման (arcuanman)
* արծուանշան (arcuanšan)
* արծուէկիր (arcuēkir)
* արծուէնշան (arcuēnšan)
* արծուիք (arcuikʻ)
* արծռունգն (arcṙungn)
* գետարծուի (getarcui)

#### Descendants

* Armenian: > արծիվ (arciv) (inherited), → արծվի (arcvi) (learned)
* → Old Georgian: არწივი (arc̣ivi)
** Georgian: არწივი (arc̣ivi)
** → Laz: არწივი (arǯivi)
** → Mingrelian: არწივი (arc̣ivi)
** → Ossetian: арцъиу (arc’iw)
** → Proto-Nakh: *aarc̣iw
** → Svan: ა̈რწიუ̂ (ärc̣iû)
** → Udi: арцӏив (arc̣iv)

### References

* ↑ Muradyan, Gohar (2005) Physiologus: The Greek and Armenian Versions with a Study of Translation Technique (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 6)‎, Leuven – Paris – Dudley: Peeters, pages 100, 146

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “արծուի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 319–320
* Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 40–41
* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “արծուի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
* Diakonoff, Igor M. (1985) “Hurro-Urartian Borrowings in Old Armenian”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society‎, volume 105, number 4, pages 597–603
* Diakonoff, Igor M., Starostin, Sergei A. (1986) Hurro-Urartian as an Eastern Caucasian Language (Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft; 12), Munich: R. Kitzinger, page 45
* Gamkrelidze, Th. V., Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 45, 457
* Godel, Robert (1975) An introduction to the study of classical Armenian, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 76
* Greppin, John A. C. (1991) “Some effects of the Hurro-Urartian people and their languages upon the earliest Armenians”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society‎, volume 111, number 4, with additional notes by I. M. Diakonoff, page 726a, footnote 53
* Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 425
* Lamberterie, Charles de (1978) “Armeniaca I–VIII: études lexicales”, in Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume 73, page 252, footnote 47 of 243–285
* Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “arcui”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 139
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “արծուի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
* Rayfield, Donald (1996) “Georgian ornithonyms, with Armenian and Caucasian parallels”, in Annual of Armenian linguistics‎, volume 17, page 4 of 1–10