Armenian edit

Armenian numbers (edit)
80
 ←  7 8 9  → 
    Cardinal: ութ (utʻ)
    Ordinal: ութերորդ (utʻerord)
    Multiplier: ութակի (utʻaki)
    Distributive: ութական (utʻakan)
    Group collective: ութնյակ (utʻnyak), ությակ (utʻyak)
    Collective prefix: ութ- (utʻ-)

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Armenian ութ (utʻ); see below.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

ութ (utʻ)

  1. eight

Declension edit

Old Armenian edit

Old Armenian cardinal numbers
 <  7 8 9  > 
    Cardinal : ութ (utʻ)
    Ordinal : ութերորդ (utʻerord)
    Adverbial : ութիցս (utʻicʻs)
    Collective : ութեքին (utʻekʻin)

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Armenian *owtu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw. The failed palatalization of *ḱ is generally explained as a result of the analogy with եւթն (ewtʻn, seven), seen also in Elean Ancient Greek ὀπτώ (optṓ).

Numeral edit

ութ (utʻ)

  1. eight
    յամի տեառն հազար ութ հարիւր եօթանասուն եւ ութyami teaṙn hazar utʻ hariwr eōtʻanasun ew utʻin the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy eight

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: ութ (utʻ)

References edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ութ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ութ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ութ”, 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 631
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2003) “Historical phonology of Classical Armenian”, in Frederik Kortlandt, Armeniaca: comparative notes, Ann Arbor: Caravan Books, page 184 of 133–211