մոյթ
Old Armenian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]մոյթ • (moytʻ)
- stay, support, prop, jamb, pillar, pilaster, stanchion, buttress
- մոյթ դնել ― moytʻ dnel ― to prop, to support, to shore up
- մոյթ լարակալ ― moytʻ larakal ― bridge of a musical instrument
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | մոյթ (moytʻ) | մոյթք (moytʻkʻ) |
| genitive | մութի (mutʻi) | մութից (mutʻicʻ) |
| dative | մութի (mutʻi) | մութից (mutʻicʻ) |
| accusative | մոյթ (moytʻ) | մոյթս (moytʻs) |
| ablative | մութէ (mutʻē) | մութից (mutʻicʻ) |
| instrumental | մութիւ (mutʻiw) | մութիւք (mutʻiwkʻ) |
| locative | մութի (mutʻi) | մոյթս (moytʻs) |
Descendants
[edit]- Armenian: մույթ (muytʻ)
References
[edit]- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մոյթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (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