# ասիդ
## Old Armenian
### Etymology

Entered through the Bible translation. Transliteration of Ancient Greek ἀσίδα (asída) which the Armenian translator encountered in Job 39.13, itself a transliteration of Biblical Hebrew חסידה (ḥăsiḏɔ).
A ghost form անիդ (anid) appears only in Soukry's 1881 publication of the long version of Ašxarhacʻoycʻ, and in some later editions relying on it. The only known manuscript of the long version, on which Soukry's publication is based, has ասիդ (asid). It has been assumed that անիդ (anid) is Soukry's emendation of the manuscript. However, such an emendation would be completely unmotivated, is not commented upon by Soukry and in the French section is translated as aside by him. More likely we are dealing with a simple misprint of ասիդ (asid). Yakobean's latest critical edition has the correct form ասիդ (asid).

### Noun

ասիդ • (asid)
* stork
    Synonym: արագիլ (aragil)
** 5th century, Bible, Job 39.13:Թեւք թռուցելոց նեեղասաց․ եթե յղասցի՞ ասիդն և նեեսայն։Tʻewkʻ tʻṙucʻelocʻ neełasacʻ; etʻe yłascʻi$^?$ asidn ew neesayn.Translation by Claude E. CoxThe wings of those that cause flight, of the neeghasa, if it conceives the asid and the neesai?
** 7th century, Anania Širakacʻi, Ašxarhacʻoycʻ [Geography] :Ունի […] ի հաւուց՝ ճարակաւորս զորս կաքաւ, զարաւշ, զասիդ (var. զանիդ) և զայլս։Uni […] i hawucʻ, čarakawors zors kakʻaw, zarawš, zasid (var. zanid) ew zayls.Translation by Robert Hewsen[Upper Armenia] has […] among wild fowl, the partridge, bustard, stork, etc.

#### Usage notes

* Medieval Armenian interpreters were uncertain about the species of the animal.

### References

* 1 2 Soukry, Arsène (1881) Géographie de Moïse de Corène d’après Ptolémée: Texte Arménien, traduit en français, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 30
* ↑ Hewsen, Robert H. (1994) “A Facsimile Reproduction of the Unique Venice Manuscript (No. 1245) of the Long Version of the Text”, in Ashkharhatsoyts (Ašxarhacʿoycʿ): The seventh century geography attributed to Ananias of Shirak‎, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 46
* ↑ Harutʻyunyan, Babken (2001) Mec Haykʻi varčʻa-kʻaġakʻakan bažanman hamakargn əst “Ašxarhacʻoycʻ”-i: Mas A [The system of administrative division of Greater Armenia according to Ašxarhacʻoycʻ: Part I]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: University Press, page 60
* ↑ Soukry, Arsène (1881) Géographie de Moïse de Corène d’après Ptolémée: Texte Arménien, traduit en français, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 40
* 1 2 Yakobean, Alekʻsan (2013) “Ananun (Ē. dar), Ašxarhacʻoycʻ; Gita-kʻnnakan bnagir [Anonymous Geography (7th century): Critical text]”, in Handes Amsorya‎, volume 127, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, columns 125–126
* ↑ Cox, Claude E. (2006) Armenian Job: reconstructed Greek text, critical edition of the Armenian with English translation (Hebrew University Armenian studies; 8), Leuven – Paris – Dudley, MA: Peeters, page 251
* ↑ Hewsen, Robert H. (1992) The Geography of Ananias of Širak (Ašxarhac‘oyc‘): the long and the short recensions. Introduction, translation and commentary (Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. Reihe B (Geisteswissenschaften); 77)‎, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, pages 59, 153

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ասիդ”, 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, page 268b
* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “անիդ”, 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, page 195a
* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “ասիդ, ասիդայ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 314ab
* Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “anid”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 85, tentatively connects անիդ (anid) with Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts
* Mxitʻar Sebastacʻi (1749) “ասիդ”, in Baṙgirkʻ Haykazean lezui [Dictionary of the Armenian Language]‎ (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 92