Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian խեղ (xeł).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

խեղ (xeġ) (superlative ամենախեղ)

  1. (archaic) maimed, mutilated; disabled, crippled

Declension edit

Old Armenian edit

Alternative forms edit

  • խիղ (xił)3rd sense only

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *kHel- (to bend; to cause to deviate). Related to շեղ (šeł).

Adjective edit

խեղ (xeł)

  1. mutilated, lame
    խեղ ձեռօքxeł jeṙōkʻcrippled in the arm
    խեղ ոտիւքxeł otiwkʻlame, crippled in the feet; handy-legged
  2. sore (of an eye)
  3. abominable

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: խեղ (xeġ) (learned)
  • Old Georgian: ხელი (xeli)

References edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “խեղ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “խեղ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “խեղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 327