ընդէր

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Old Armenian

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Etymology

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ընդ (ənd) +‎ էր (ēr)

Pronoun

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ընդէ՞ր (əndē?r)

  1. why?
    • 6th century, Philo of Alexandria, I linelutʻeann xndrocʻ ew lucmancʻ [Quaestiones et Solutiones in Genesim] 2.62:[1][2]
      Ընդէ՞ր իբրու յաղագս այլոյ ա՟յ ասէ, թէ ի կերպարան ա՟յ արար զմարդն, եւ ոչ յիւրն։
      Əndē?r ibru yałags ayloy a.y asē, tʻē i kerparan a.y arar zmardn, ew očʻ yiwrn.
      • Translation by Ralph Marcus
        Why does (Scripture) say, as if (speaking) of another God, "in the image of God He made man" and not "in His own image"?

Usage notes

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Ընդէր (Əndēr) is used when one wants to learn something, whereas for զի (zi) no answer is expected.[3]

Synonyms

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Descendants

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  • Armenian: ընդեր (ənder) (learned)

References

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  1. ^ Awgereancʻ, Mkrtičʻ (1826) Pʻiloni Ebrayecʻwoy mnacʻordkʻ i hays, or en Meknutʻiwn Cnndocʻ ew Elicʻ, Čaṙkʻ i Sampʻson, i Yovnan, ew yeris mankuns kam i hreštaks, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 146
  2. ^ Marcus, Ralph (1953) Philo: Supplement I: Questions and Answers on Genesis (The Loeb Classical Library), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 150
  3. ^ Gočanean, Pōġos (2011) Dasakan grabari gorcnakan kʻerakanutʻiwn[1] (in Armenian), Vienna and Yerevan: Mekhitarist Press, page 22, footnote 1

Further reading

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