purslane, any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants, particularly common purslane, Portulaca oleracea · waterleaf, Talinum fruticosum
köken: From Middle Dutch porceleine, from Middle French porcelaine, from Old French pourcelaine, from Italian porcellana, probably a corruption of Latin porcillāca, an alternative form of Latin portulāca. Cognate of English purslane.
köken: A dialectal term, unattested in Old or Middle Armenian. The earliest attestation is in Vilotte's Latin–Armenian dictionary of 1714. Recorded inter alia in the dialects of Yerevan, Tiflis and Karabakh, in the latter also as տա̈՛նդօ̈ռնը (tä́ndöṙnə), which may point to older *դանդուռն (*danduṙn). Ačaṙean compares with Mush dialect տանդռնիկ (tandṙnik, “a kind of wild edible green”) and Yerevan…