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  • #51
    Re: Armenian cognates w/other languages

    Originally posted by yerazhishda View Post
    And even though Armenia was only shortly a province of the Empire, I am sure that they had trade and political relationships, before and after.
    In these types of situations the nation that is doing the 'borrowing' usually borrows words/terms that they don't already have. For example: Armenians may have borrowed the word Catapult from the Romans because Catapults did not exist in Armenia. But why would Armenians borrow a word for the moon if it already existed? Besides, Armenia was never really under strong Roman influence. The only heavy "foreign" influence we Armenians have readily absorbed into our culture and gene pool is Persian/Parthian.

    Originally posted by jgk3 View Post
    Armenian, do you have any sources that could help confirm this? Are there records in Ancient Armenian mythology that have a related form of Armenian "Luys"?
    The Armenian word Lusin, as with all other celestial terms in the Armenian lexicon, is an ancient word that most likely predates Rome by thousands of years. You are correct in your assumption that the Armenian Lusin and the Latin Lucis were inherited/derived from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) root.
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    • #52
      Re: Armenian cognates w/other languages

      Thanks Armenian.

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      • #53
        Re: Armenian cognates w/other languages

        Several more words that came to mind.

        Arm: gam/kam Eng: come

        Arm: la-l Eng: to lament

        Arm: yur Eng: your/his/her

        Arm: chl-el Eng: to chuck

        Arm: ard/art Eng: yard (orchard)

        And four probables.

        Arm: goriz/koriz Eng: core (nucleus)

        Arm: gna/kna Eng: go

        Arm: qats Eng: kick

        Arm: sird/Sirt Eng: heart
        Last edited by Armenian; 11-27-2008, 10:10 PM.
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        • #54
          Re: Armenian cognates w/other languages

          Arm: Arvestaget Eng: Artist

          Also, if you take into consideration the tendency in Armenian to add 'v' as a buffer within words (similary with 'l' and 'gh' as jgk3 stated before), 'arest' is definitely not that far off from 'art' or 'artist'.
          Last edited by yerazhishda; 11-27-2008, 11:10 PM.

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          • #55
            Re: Armenian cognates w/other languages

            Originally posted by jgk3 View Post
            I would like to point out that Latin pronounced their "c"s as "k"s, so Caesar was pronounced Kaysar (Germans were the only ones who got the pronouncing like the Roman one in "Kaiser").
            Thanks for correcting me, jgk3. You are probably a lot more knowledgeable in the field of linguistics than I am as you study it, right? It was just an idea I thought to throw out there as ever since I first heard the word "lusin (moon)" I always made a connection in my head with roots such as "lus" or even "luna".

            As a side note, the 'lus' root is also shared in English words such as 'hallucination', 'illustrious', etc.

            Turning Luk (Phonetic pronunciation of the Latin root for light) into Armenian Luys requires an apt phonologically described process in Armenian that would explain such a transformation of the Latin form to produce our word. You could note more similarity in the nominative/genitive form Lukis (Lucis) to Armenian Luys. If you could build a case of Armenian language at some point in its history liking to borrow Latin nominative/genitive forms, that would help you sound more convincing.
            I would build a better case, but I don't think I'm ready to write my doctoral thesis on the subject just yet.

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            • #56
              Re: Armenian cognates w/other languages

              haha, it's ok yeraz, and yes I am studying linguistics and enjoying it very much.

              Btw, the words with luc in English (illustrious and hallucination) are french loan words, which in turn are likely to by Romance inheritences in the French language, meaning to say that they are derived from Latin.

              I would take care however with the treatment of arvestaget as very similar in surface structure to artist. Which segment of each of these words denotes a person? in English it is the -ist suffix, and in Armenian? My intuition tells me it is the -aget suffix, not the -est- which is in the middle of the word as I don't know what this denotes morphologically in Armenian.

              My armenian vocabulary is not very rich, I only use it at home and rarely use the word for art, so I'm asking, what is it, arest?

              I like this thread because it is expanding my Armenian vocabulary, I'm used to having to resort to English or French words, or much more general Armenian words to refer to specific things that don't come up in every day speech and it makes me feel weak in my language. I try hard to turn this around and this thread is helping me.
              Last edited by jgk3; 11-28-2008, 06:12 AM.

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              • #57
                Re: Armenian cognates w/other languages

                Originally posted by Armenian View Post
                Several more words that came to mind.

                Arm: gam/kam Eng: come

                Arm: la-l Eng: to lament

                Arm: yur Eng: your/his/her

                Arm: chl-el Eng: to chuck

                Arm: ard/art Eng: yard (orchard)

                And four probables.

                Arm: goriz/koriz Eng: core (nucleus)

                Arm: gna/kna Eng: go

                Arm: qats Eng: kick

                Arm: sird/Sirt Eng: heart
                Thanks for adding more. The last one with heart and sird is already established as common Indo-European inheritence.

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                • #58
                  Re: Armenian cognates w/other languages

                  Originally posted by jgk3 View Post
                  I would take care however with the treatment of arvestaget as very similar in surface structure to artist. Which segment of each of these words denotes a person? in English it is the -ist suffix, and in Armenian? My intuition tells me it is the -aget suffix, not the -est- which is in the middle of the word as I don't know what this denotes morphologically in Armenian.

                  My armenian vocabulary is not very rich, I only use it at home and rarely use the word for art, so I'm asking, what is it, arest?
                  You are correct, the "-get/-ked" part denotes a person. A similar word is "kraked" which means 'writer/author'. And yes, arvest means art.

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                  • #59
                    Re: Armenian cognates w/other languages

                    Originally posted by yerazhishda View Post
                    You are correct, the "-get/-ked" part denotes a person. A similar word is "kraked" which means 'writer/author'. And yes, arvest means art.
                    Yerazh, ked/get denotes "knowledge" - Kidutyun/Gitutyun.

                    Arhestaget = artisan, a person that has knowledge of a craft carpentry, bricklaying, potter, metal worker, etc...

                    Arvestaget = artist, a person that has knowledge of art.

                    Graget = writer, a person that has knowledge of writing.

                    I am not sure of the origin of the word "art/arvest". Unless one can prove that the concept of "art" existed during the proto-Indo-European time period, I would suspect that the word "arvest" in Armenian is not inherited from PIE but borrowed from either French or Latin. The same may apply to the word taghand - talent.
                    Last edited by Armenian; 11-28-2008, 12:37 PM.
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                    • #60
                      Re: Armenian cognates w/other languages

                      payts/bayts - but

                      ked (suffix derived from kidnal, to know) - ken (Scottish word for 'know' as in "I dinna ken")

                      Lij - lake

                      goshig/koshik - shoe

                      voki - vocal (involves breath which is related to spirit [as in inspire, respiration etc.])

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