սենեակ

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

սենէկ (senēk) — post-Classical

Etymology

Together with Old Georgian სენაკი (senaḳi), borrowed from Middle Iranian *sēniyak, from Old Iranian *sayanīyaka- (literally “that which is to be slept in, sleeping-room”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie down”). Compare Sanskrit शयनीयक (śayanīyaka, “bed, couch”), शयनीय (śayanīya, “to be slept or lain on”), शयन (śayana, “repose; bed”) and Latin cūnae (“cradle, crib; nest”).

Noun

սենեակ • (seneak)

Declension

i-a-type

	singular	plural
nominative	սենեակ (seneak)	սենեակք (seneakkʻ)
genitive	սենեկի (seneki)	սենեկաց (senekacʻ)
dative	սենեկի (seneki)	սենեկաց (senekacʻ)
accusative	սենեակ (seneak)	սենեակս (seneaks)
ablative	սենեկէ (senekē)	սենեկաց (senekacʻ)
instrumental	սենեկաւ (senekaw)	սենեկաւք = սենեկօք (senekawkʻ = senekōkʻ)
locative	սենեկի (seneki)	սենեակս (seneaks)

Derived terms

սենեկագործ (senekagorc)
սենեկապան (senekapan)
սենեկապետ (senekapet)
սենեկապետութիւն (senekapetutʻiwn)
սենեկաւոր (senekawor)
սենեկիկ (senekik)

Descendants

→ Armenian: սենյակ (senyak) (learned)

References

Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սենեակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 201ab
Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “սենեակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
Badrupanean (Patrubány), Ġukas (1908) “Stugabanakan hetazōtutʻiwnkʻ [Etymological Studies]”, in Handes Amsorya‎^[1] (in Armenian), volume 22, number 8, § 43.4, page 246a, derives from *ḱey- as an inherited word
Gippert, Jost (1993) Iranica Armeno-Iberica: Studien zu den iranischen Lehnwörtern im Armenischen und Georgischen (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte; 606. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Iranistik; 26)‎^[2] (in German), volume I, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 229–235
Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 374
Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սենեակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
Rapp, Stephen H. (2014) The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature, Ashgate Publishing, page 59