յաղագս

Old Armenian

Alternative forms
  • յաղակս (yałaks) – post-classical

Etymology

Plural locative case of աղագ (ałag) or plural accusative of it with the preposition յ- (y-).

Preposition

յաղագս • (yałags)

  1. (with genitive) for, on account of, for the sake of, in consideration of; about
    յաղագս ապստամբութեանն Հայկայ ― yałags apstambutʿeann Haykay ― about Hayk's rebellion
    • 6th century, Philo of Alexandria, I linelutʿeann xndrocʿ ew lucmancʿ [Quaestiones et Solutiones in Genesim] 2.62:[1][2]
      Ընդէ՞ր իբրու յաղագս այլոյ ա՟յ ասէ, թէ ի կերպարան ա՟յ արար զմարդն, եւ ոչ յիւրն։
      Əndē?r ibru yałags ayloy a.y asē, tʿē i kerparan a.y arar zmardn, ew očʿ yiwrn.
      • Translation by Ralph Marcus
        Why does (Scripture) say, as if (speaking) of another God, "in the image of God He made man" and not "in His own image"?

Descendants
  • → Armenian: հաղագս (hałags) (learned)

References
  1. Awgereancʿ, Mkrtičʿ (1826) Pʿiloni Ebrayecʿwoy mnacʿordkʿ i hays, or en Meknutʿiwn Cnndocʿ ew Elicʿ, Čaṙkʿ i Sampʿson, i Yovnan, ew yeris mankuns kam i hreštaks [Philonis Judaei paralipomena armena. Libri videlicet quatuor in Genesin, libri duo in Exodum, sermo unus de Sampsone, alter de Iona, tertius de tribus angelis Abraamo apparentibus], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 146
  2. Marcus, Ralph (1953) Philo: Supplement I: Questions and Answers on Genesis (The Loeb Classical Library), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 150

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “աղագ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “յաղագս”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “յաղագս”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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