մոյթ

Old Armenian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mewtʰi-. Cognates include Sanskrit मेथि (methi, “pillar, post”), Lithuanian miẽtas (“stake, picket”), Latvian miets (“stake, picket”), Latin meta (“goal; end, boundary”) and Old Norse meiðr (“beam; pole; tree”).

Noun

մոյթ • (moytʻ)

1. stay, support, prop, jamb, pillar, pilaster, stanchion, buttress

   մոյթ դնել ― moytʻ dnel ― to prop, to support, to shore up

   մոյթ լարակալ ― moytʻ larakal ― bridge of a musical instrument

Declension

i-type

	singular		plural
nominative	մոյթ (moytʻ)		մոյթք (moytʻkʻ)
genitive	մութի (mutʻi)		մութից (mutʻicʻ)
dative	մութի (mutʻi)		մութից (mutʻicʻ)
accusative	մոյթ (moytʻ)		մոյթս (moytʻs)
ablative	մութէ (mutʻē)		մութից (mutʻicʻ)
instrumental	մութիւ (mutʻiw)		մութիւք (mutʻiwkʻ)
locative	մութի (mutʻi)		մոյթս (moytʻs)

Descendants

• Armenian: մույթ (muytʻ)

References

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մոյթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մոյթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press