հայթայթեմ

Old Armenian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Reduplication of հայթեմ (haytʻem) with a semantic development ‘to attach, to adjust, to put together’ > ‘to devise, contrive, find a pretext, etc.’

Verb edit

հայթայթեմ (haytʻaytʻem)

  1. to devise, contrive, concoct, find a solution or pretext, make an effort

Conjugation edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: հայթայթել (haytʻaytʻel)

References edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “հայթայթեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 385