Արտաշէն

Old Armenian

Etymology

A Middle Iranian borrowing. Traditionally explained as a hypocoristic in -ēn (see Զաւէն (Zawēn) for this suffix) of names with *Arta(x)š-, such as Արտաշէս (Artašēs), Արտաշիր (Artašir), thus Old Iranian *R̥ta-xš-aina-. But Justi explains as Old Iranian *R̥ta-šayana- (“having a clean dwelling, whose house is the seat of [religious] purity”) (see շէն (šēn)).

Proper noun

Արտաշէն • (Artašēn) (hapax)

1. a male given name, Artashen
   • 5th century, Pʻawstos Buzand, Hayoc Patmutʻiwnʻ [History of the Armenians] V.37:

     Բայց Մանուէլ որդի Արտաշինայ ի Մամիկոնեան ի տոհմէն, հանդերձ եղբարբն իւրով Կոմսիւ, բազում քաջութիւնս կատարեալ ի նմին ճակատուն, սակայն հետիոտս ապրէին:

     Baycʻ Manuēl ordi Artašinay i Mamikonean i tohmēn, handerj ełbarbn iwrov Komsiw, bazum kʻaǰutʻiwns katareal i nmin čakatun, sakayn hetiots aprēin:

     • Translation by Nina G. Garsoïan

       But Manuēl son of Artašēn from the Mamikonean house, together with his brother Koms, performed many deeds of valor in this battle, though they survived [only] on foot.

Usage notes

The only known bearer of the name is Artašēn, a 4th century noble of Mamikonean house, father of sparapet Manuēl and Koms.

Declension

a-type

	singular (uncountable)
nominative	Արտաշէն (Artašēn)
genitive	Արտաշինայ (Artašinay)
dative	Արտաշինայ (Artašinay)
accusative	Արտաշէն (Artašēn)
ablative	Արտաշինայ (Artašinay)
instrumental	Արտաշինաւ (Artašinaw)
locative	Արտաշէն (Artašēn)

Related terms

• Արտակ (Artak)

Descendants

• → Armenian: Արտաշեն (Artašen) (learned)

Further reading

• Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1942) “Արտաշէն”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 21) (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 305
• Garsoïan, Nina G. (1989) “Artašēs / Artašēn Mamikonean”, in The Epic Histories Attributed to P‘awstos Buzand (Buzandaran Patmut‘iwnk‘). Appendix I: Prosopography‎^[3], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, pages 356–357
• Horn, Paul (1898–1901) “Neupersische Schriftsprache [New Persian written language]”, in Geiger, Wilhelm, Kuhn, Ernst, editors, Grundriß der iranischen Philologie [Outline of Iranian Philology] (in German), volume I, part II, Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, page 191
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 30–31 with footnote 1, also page 90, footnote 2
• Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Artašin”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[4] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, pages 37b, also 424, 511, incorrectly assumes the nominative to be *Արտաշին (*Artašin) based on the attested genitive Արտաշինայ (Artašinay), but the genitive of *Արտաշին (*Artašin) would have been *Արտաշնայ (*Artašnay)
• Rüdiger, Schmitt (1984) “Iranische Namenschichten und Namentypen bei altarmenischen Historikern”, in Beiträge zur Namenforschung. Neue Folge (in German), volume 19, page 330 of 317–331
• Toumanoff, Cyrille (1976) Manuel de généalogie et de chronologie pour l'histoire de la Caucasie chrétienne (Arménie - Géorgie - Albanie) (in French), Rome: Edizioni Aquila, § 4d, page 331, spelling as Artaschin