Old Armenian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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An o-grade verbal iterative-extensive reduplication from the same source as հեղում (hełum).

Verb

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ողողեմ (ołołem)

  1. (transitive) to overflow, to inundate, to flood
  2. (transitive) to rinse
  3. (mediopassive, intransitive) to be inundated, plunged in, immersed
    ողողել յանձրեւոյołołel yanjrewoyto be soaked through by the rain

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Armenian: ողողել (oġoġel)

References

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  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ողողեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 404