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Where does “ծովաշուն” come from?

ծովաշուն (Armenian) comes from Armenian շուն, from Old Armenian շուն, from Proto-Indo-European ḱwṓ — dog.

ծովաշուն (Armenian): seal

Definitions

  1. seal

Ancestry of “ծովաշուն”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Armenianշունdog
2Old Armenianշունdog; adulterer or adulteress; Canis Major
3Proto-Indo-Europeanḱwṓdog
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