արգատ

Armenian

Noun

արգատ (argat)

  1. Alternative form of արքատ (arkʿat)

Declension

Middle Armenian

Etymology

The origin is unknown. Attested only in Middle Armenian and in the Ararat dialect as արքատ (arkʿat).

Ałayan derives from Old Armenian *րգատ (*rgat), from *գրատ (*grat), from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.[1] This etymology is considered the most probable one by Martirosyan.[2]

Noun

արգատ (argat)

  1. superfluous branches cut off from a vine and used for kindling
    Synonym: որթոտ (ortʿot)
    • 17th century, Eremia Mełrecʿi, Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ [Armenian Dictionary] 233:[3][4]
      Ուռ · ճիղ, կամ արգատ։
      Uṙ · čił, kam argat.

Descendants

  • Armenian: արքատ (arkʿat), արքադ (arkʿad), արգատ (argat)

References

  1. Ałayan, Ēduard (1974) Baṙakʿnnakan ew stugabanakan hetazotutʿyunner [Lexicological and Etymological Studies] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 30–31
  2. Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), “argat”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 132
  3. Eremia Mełrecʿi (1698), ուռ”, in Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ [Armenian Dictionary] (in Armenian), Livorno: Sargis Evdokiacʿi Sahetʿči Press, page 258
  4. Amalyan, H. M., editor (1975) Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 261

Further reading

  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʿi (1884), sarment”, in Baṙagirkʿ i gałłierēn lezuē i hayerēn [Dictionary from the French Language into Armenian], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian Press, page 1118
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʿi (2000), արգատ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʿ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʿeancʿ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʿ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 77
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), արգատ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 304a
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