բուզաղթն
Old Armenian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editThe origin is uncertain. Martirosyan proposes to interpret this as a compound of *բուզ- (*buz-), *բոզ- (*boz-, “sun, light”) and *աղթ- (*ałtʻ-, “darkness”). For the first compare բուզի (buzi, “sun”), for the second աղտամուղտ (ałtamułt, “darkness”). Typologically compare dialectal մութ-ու-լուս (mutʻ-u-lus, “twilight”, literally “dark-and-light”).
Noun
editբուզաղթն • (buzałtʻn)
References
edit- Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 192
- Eremia Meġrecʻi (1698) “բուզաղթն”, in Baṙgirkʻ hayocʻ [Armenian Dictionary] (in Armenian), Livorno: Sargis Evdokiacʻi Sahetʻči Press
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բուզաղթն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press