ընդէր
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Old Armenian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ընդէ՞ր • (əndē?r)
- 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"?
- Ընդէ՞ր իբրու յաղագս այլոյ ա՟յ ասէ, թէ ի կերպարան ա՟յ արար զմարդն, եւ ոչ յիւրն։
Usage notes
[edit]Ընդէր (Əndēr) is used when one wants to learn something, whereas for զի (zi) no answer is expected.[3]
Synonyms
[edit]- էր (ēr)
Descendants
[edit]- → Armenian: ընդեր (ənder) (learned)
References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ Marcus, Ralph (1953) Philo: Supplement I: Questions and Answers on Genesis (The Loeb Classical Library), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 150
- ^ Gočanean, Pōġos (2011) Dasakan grabari gorcnakan kʻerakanutʻiwn[1] (in Armenian), Vienna and Yerevan: Mekhitarist Press, page 22, footnote 1
Further reading
[edit]- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ընդէր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press