Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

An Iranian borrowing: compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hyndk'), Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫟𐫏𐫗𐫅𐫃 (xyndg, sick, ill).[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Adjective edit

հիւանդ (hiwand)

  1. sick, ill

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: հիվանդ (hivand)

References edit

  1. ^ Salemann, Carl (1908) “Manichaeische Studien. I. Die mittelpersischen Texte in revidierter Transcription, mit Glossar und grammatischen Bemerkungen”, in Mémoires de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, VIIIe Série, Cl. hist.-phil., volume 8, number 10, pages 92–93, the etymology proposed by Nikolai Marr
  2. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1987) “Armenia and Iran IV. Iranian influences in Armenian 2. Iranian loanwords in Armenian”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica[1], volume 2, London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 463b of 459–465
  3. ^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 303
  4. ^ Gert, Klingenschmitt (2000) “Mittelpersisch”, in Bernhard Forssman, Robert Plath, editors, Indoarisch, Iranisch und die Indogermanistik: Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 2. bis 5. Oktober 1997 in Erlangen (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert, page 217
  5. ^ Yakubovich, Ilya (2009) “Two Armenian Etymologies”, in I. Tatišvili, M. Hvedelidze, L. Gordeziani, editors, Caucasian and Near Eastern Studies XIII. Giorgi Melikishvili Memorial Volume[2], Tbilisi: Logos, pages 270–271
  6. ^ Meyer, Robin (2017) Iranian-Armenian language contact in and before the 5th century CE. PhD thesis[3], University of Oxford, page 58

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977) “հիւանդ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 98ab
  • Awetikʿean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “հիւանդ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Petrosean, Matatʿeay (1879) “հիւանդ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy