սան

Armenian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Armenian սան (san).

Noun

սան • (san)

  1. nursling
  2. pupil; alumnus
  3. godchild
  4. adopted child, foster child
Declension

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian սան (san).

Noun

սան • (san)

  1. kettle, cauldron
Declension
Derived terms
  • սանակալ (sanakal)

Old Armenian

Etymology 1

Zero-grade of the root սուն- (sun-, “feeding, fostering”).

Noun

սան • (san)

  1. nursling; foster child
  2. pupil, scholar
  3. godchild
Declension
Derived terms
  • սանական (sanakan)
  • սանակից (sanakicʿ)
  • սանահայր (sanahayr)
  • սանամայր (sanamayr)
Descendants
  • Armenian: սան (san)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “սան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 170–171
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “սան”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “սան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy

Etymology 2

From Urartian 𒃻𒉌 (ša2-ni /šani/, “kettle”), from Akkadian 𒊺𒉡 (šen-nu /šannu(m), šennu(m)/, “metal kettle or cauldron”),[1][2][3][4] itself a loanword from Sumerian 𒍏𒊿 (URUDUšen /šen/, “a copper vessel”).

Noun

սան • (san)

  1. kettle, cauldron
Declension
Descendants

References

  1. Kapancjan, G. A. (1956) Историко-лингвистические работы: К начальной истории армян: Древняя Малая Азия [Historical-Linguistic Works: Towards an early history of the Armenians. Ancient Asia Minor]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 216
  2. Džaukjan, G. B. (1985), “Урартские заимствования в армянском языке [Urartian loanwords in Armenian]”, in Ju. V. Bromlej et al., editors, Культурное наследие Востока: проблемы, поиски, суждения‎ (in Russian), Leningrad: Nauka, page 368 of 364–372
  3. J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 430, 432, 466
  4. Fournet, Arnaud (2013), “About the Vocalic System of Armenian Words of Substratic Origin”, in Archív Orientalni‎, volume 81, issue 2, pages 207–222

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “սան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 170b
  • Arutjunjan, N. V. (2001), M. L. Xačikjan, editor, Корпус урартских клинообразных надписей [Corpus of Urartian Cuneiform Inscriptions]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 462b
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “սան”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Greppin, John A. C. (1991), “Some effects of the Hurro-Urartian people and their languages upon the earliest Armenians”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society‎, volume 111, issue 4, with additional notes by I. M. Diakonoff, page 726b
  • Greppin, John A. C. (2010), “Urartian Sibilants in Armenian”, in Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences‎, volume 4, issue 1, pages 179–182
  • 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 957
  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “սան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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