# սկունդ
## Armenian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian սկունդ (skund)

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /əsˈkund/, [əskúnd], /skund/, [skund]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /əsˈɡunt/, [əskúntʰ], /sɡunt/, [əskúntʰ]

### Noun

սկունդ • (skund)
* (dated) small dog, puppy

#### Declension
## Old Armenian
### Etymology

The origin is uncertain.
Attested only in Grigor Magistros (11th c.) and Nersēs Šnorhali (12th c.), both from the noble Pahlavuni family. Not recorded in any dialect, although Ačaṙyan tentatively compares Tokat dialect կոնդիկ (kondik, “puppy”). Probably contained in Old Armenian սկնդ-իկ (sknd-ik), սկնդ-ուկ (sknd-uk, “deserted or barren wife”).
Often derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwon-t-, from *ḱwṓ (“dog”), whence շուն (šun), with the same enlargement as in Proto-Germanic *hundaz, but this assumes Proto-Indo-European *ḱw yields Old Armenian *սգ (*sg) → սկ (sk), which contradicts շուն (šun) and էշ (ēš).
Has also been compared to a group of related words in the Iranian languages of Pamir — Wakhi skən, Ishkashimi skənůk, Yazghulami sək̊on, Munji skun (“puppy”), as well as to Ossetian стӕн (stæn, “male dog”) and Proto-Slavic *ščenę (“young animal”), and all have been derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ken- (“young”). But note that Proto-Indo-European *sk- cannot yield սկ- (sk-). It is better to assume a borrowing from the Iranian cognate.
Compare also Ancient Greek σκύμνος (skúmnos), σκύλαξ (skúlax).

### Noun

սկունդ • (skund)
* dog, puppy
    Synonym: շուն (šun)
** 11th century, Grigor Magistros
** 12th century, Nersēs Šnorhali

#### Derived terms

* սկնդիկ (skndik), սկնդուկ (sknduk) (probably)

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: սկունդ (skund)

### References

* ↑ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սկունդ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 230–231
* ↑ Meillet, Antoine (1936) Esquisse d’une grammaire comparée de l’arménien classique (in French), 2nd edition, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 50–51
* ↑ Fortson, Benjamin W. (2010) Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, second edition, Oxford: Blackwell, page 387
* ↑ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 439
* 1 2 Klingenschmitt, Gert (1982) Das altarmenische Verbum (in German), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 225
* ↑ Morgenstierne, Georg (1938) Iranian Pamir Languages (Yidgha-Munji, Sanglechi-Ishkashmi and Wakhi) (Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages), volume II, Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., page 199b
* ↑ Abajev, V. I. (1965) Скифо-европейские изоглоссы: На стыке Востока и Запада [Scythian–European isoglosses: At the junction of East and West] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, pages 21–22
* ↑ Paxalina, T. N. (1975) Vaxanskij jazyk [The Wakhi Language], Moscow: Nauka, page 255b
* ↑ Steblin-Kamenskij, I.M. (1999) “skən”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ vaxanskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Wakhi Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Peterburgskoje Vostokovedenije, →ISBN, page 313
* ↑ Meillet, Antoine (1936) Esquisse d’une grammaire comparée de l’arménien classique (in French), 2nd edition, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 32–33

### Further reading

* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “սկունդ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 722a
* Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 521, 582
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սկունդ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 644b
* Ravnæs, Erling (1991) The chronology of the sound changes from Proto-Indo-European to Classical Armenian. Thesis, University of Oslo, pages 141–142