բուրգն
Old Armenian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Belongs to the same family of words as Urartian 𒁓𒂵𒈾 (bur-ga-na /burgana/, “pillar, column; altar, base, or built-up foundation”), Classical Syriac ܒܘܪܓܐ (būrgā), Arabic بُرْج (burj), Ancient Greek πύργος (púrgos), Latin burgus, Proto-Germanic *burgz.[1][2][3][4][5] The immediate source for the Armenian is uncertain. According to Martirosyan “we may be dealing with a ‘Wanderwort’ ultimately of IE origin; the Armenian, Greek, and Near Eastern forms may reflect an IE centum form (perhaps back loans from indigenous Mediterranean and/or European languages)”.[6]
Noun
[edit]բուրգն • (burgn)
- tower or similar tall building
- Synonym: աշտարակ (aštarak)
- pyramid
- Synonym: պիւրամիդ (piwramid)
- dice-box (a box in which dice are shaken and thrown onto the game-table; called so because of its shape)
Declension
[edit]n-type
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | բուրգն (burgn) | բրգունք (brgunkʻ) | |
| genitive | բրգան (brgan) | բրգանց (brgancʻ) | |
| dative | բրգան (brgan) | բրգանց (brgancʻ) | |
| accusative | բուրգն (burgn) | բրգունս (brguns) | |
| ablative | բրգանէ (brganē) | բրգանց (brgancʻ) | |
| instrumental | բրգամբ (brgamb) | բրգամբք (brgambkʻ) | |
| locative | բրգան (brgan) | բրգունս (brguns) |
Descendants
[edit]- → Armenian: բուրգ (burg)
References
[edit]- ^ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 392–393
- ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բուրգն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
- ^ Diakonoff, Igor M. (1985) “Hurro-Urartian Borrowings in Old Armenian”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society[1], volume 105, number 4, pages 602–603
- ^ 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, pages 950–951
- ^ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “բուրգն”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 140b
- ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 246
Further reading
[edit]- Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate[2], PhD dissertation, Leiden University, pages 32-33