Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ամ (am)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ամ (am)

  1. (archaic, literary) year
    Synonym: տարի (tari)

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Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *s(e)meh₂-. The initial ա- (a-) is from the oblique stem *sm̥-h₂-ó-. Related to ամառն (amaṙn).[1][2][3][4]

Noun edit

ամ (am)

  1. year
    ամի ամի, ամ յամէ, ամ ըստ ամէami ami, am yamē, am əst amēyearly, annually, a year, every year
    յամէ եւսyamē ewsthe following year, the year after
    յառաջիկայ ամիyaṙaǰikay aminext year
    յանցելում ամիyancʻelum amilast year
    զայս ամ, յայսմ ամիzays am, yaysm amithis year
    զամն ողջոյնzamn ołǰoynall the year
    ի վերջ կոյս ամինi verǰ koys amintowards the end of the year
  2. age

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Descendants edit

  • Armenian: ամ (am) (learned)

References edit

  1. ^ Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 36–37
  2. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ամ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  3. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “am”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page amlik of 45, 47
  4. ^ Kölligan, Daniel (2020) “Etyma Armeniaca”, in Claire Le Feuvre & Daniel Petit, editors, Ὀνομάτων ἵστωρ, Mélanges offerts à Charles de Lamberterie (Collection linguistique de la Société de linguistique de Paris; 106), Leuven, Paris: Peeters, page 75

Further reading edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ամ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ամ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy