մոյթ

Old Armenian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mewtʰi-. Cognates include Sanskrit मेथि (methi, “pillar, post”), Lithuanian miẽtas (“stake, picket”), Latvian miets (“stake, picket”), Latin meta (“goal; end, boundary”) and Old Norse meiðr (“beam; pole; tree”).

Noun

մոյթ • (moytʿ)

  1. stay, support, prop, jamb, pillar, pilaster, stanchion, buttress
    մոյթ դնել ― moytʿ dnel ― to prop, to support, to shore up
    մոյթ լարակալ ― moytʿ larakal ― bridge of a musical instrument

Declension
i-type
singular plural
nominative մոյթ (moytʿ) մոյթք (moytʿkʿ)
genitive մութի (mutʿi) մութից (mutʿicʿ)
dative մութի (mutʿi) մութից (mutʿicʿ)
accusative մոյթ (moytʿ) մոյթս (moytʿs)
ablative մութէ (mutʿē) մութից (mutʿicʿ)
instrumental մութիւ (mutʿiw) մութիւք (mutʿiwkʿ)
locative մութի (mutʿi) մոյթս (moytʿs)

Descendants
  • Armenian: մույթ (muytʿ)

References
  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “մոյթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “մոյթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
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