Talk:-ավուն

Close to CK -(e)win.--Calak (talk) 14:39, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * (e)spê "louse", (e)spêwin "lousy"
 * qîn "hatred", qînewin "hateful"
 * qêz "disgust", qêzewin "disgustful"
 * --Calak (talk) 16:21, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I guess, this can be mentioned. I was thinking to explain as +, but that's too speculative. --Vahag (talk) 19:17, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Perhaps it is cognate with MP. -āwand (via a new Iranian language): hunar "virtue, skill", hunarāwand "skilled, virtuous". Less likely another variant of MIr. gōn (whence գույն) with regular g > y, w; compare MP. -yōn.--Calak (talk) 17:38, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The second is very appealing so that Ačaṙyan too considers it. is very common with colour names, like Iranian *gauna-, and forms comparatives like, but the problem is the g > v change is unknown within Armenian. Are you saying -VgV- could give -w- in Iranian? ESIJA under *gauna- does not have any examples, except perhaps Khotanese hvū ‘having good colour’. --Vahag (talk) 17:24, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes g > w, y is regular in SW MIr. (and many NIr.). Compare MP murw (< OIr. *mr̥ga-, whence Arm °մարգ), MP marw (Pth. maṛγ, whence մարգ) MP āwām (< OIr. *abi-gāma-, Pth. āγām), MP mow (< OIr. *magu-).--Calak (talk) 18:23, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
 * OK, I added the possibility of an Iranian borrowing. --Vahag (talk) 06:17, 21 April 2019 (UTC)