6th International Symposium Oriental Studies

43 The 6 th International Symposium on Oriental Ancient Documents Studies Lusine Khachatryan The Turkic Names of Animals Attested in Armenian Medieval Authors’ Works There exists a large spectrum of collected data, which explores Turkic vocabulary in the modern Turkology. The researchers examine not only Old Turkic manuscripts, but also written heritage of medieval and later periods. Nowadays, various groups of vocabularies, mentioned in the Turkic codices, are considered to be the object of the study for researchers. But, the studies are not equally separated in time and space dimensions. It seems that medi‑ eval Armenian sources lack a thorough analysis by the researchers of this field. However, Armenian, Turkish and Mongolian relations find their reflec‑ tions in Armenian historiography, lexicography, and culturology and in many different spheres. The Armenian writer of the 13 th c. Kirakos Gandzaketsi brings some valuable information about Mongolian invasions in his work entitled “The Armenian History”. Along with the mentioned data in order to make a com‑ prehensive picture of the Mongol-Tatar expansions, the author represents more usable — colloquial, word lists from Mongolian vocabulary. There are loanwords from both languages as a result of Turkic–Mongolian lexical inter‑ relations. Some animal species were attested in the abovementioned work. A doctor–biologist of the 15 th c. Amirdovlad Amasiatsi in his examined work entitled “Angitac Anpet” (Ms. 452, Institute of Ancient Manuscripts– Matenadaran) mentioned more than 3500 names of healthy plants, animals, minerals, and their synonyms. The names are given in five languages: Arme‑ nian, Ottoman-Turkish, Greek, Persian, and Arabic. In the frame of the article the Turkic lexicon attested in the mentioned and other Armenian sources have undergone linguistic analysis, distinguish‑ ing thematic groups of animal names, as well as trying to establish word etymology, analyzing morphological and semantic peculiarities and tracing its development in modern Turkic languages. Key words: Turkic vocabulary, Armenian historiography, lexicography, Kirakos Gandzaketsi .