Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Of onomatopoeic origin. Alternatively, from the hypothetical root *բա(ղ)ջ- (*ba(ł)ǰ-) and related to բարբաջ (barbaǰ).

Verb edit

բաջաղիմ (baǰałim)  (aorist indicative բաջաղեցայ)

  1. to tell fables, to talk nonsense, to talk idly, to chatter, to jabber

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: բաջաղել (baǰaġel)

References edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բաջաղեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բաջաղիմ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “baǰaɫ-im”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 167
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բաջաղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press