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գետառ

գետառ

See also: Գետառ

Armenian

Noun

գետառ (getaṙ)

  1. river-shore
  2. (dialectal) former river-bed which is ploughed
  3. (dialectal) mother river, of which a brook/rivulet branches out

Declension


Old Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

The first component is գետ (get, river). The -առ (-aṙ) is explained by Martirosyan as meaning “to flow, stream” derived from Proto-Indo-European *srew-, whence առու (aṙu). See also հաւառի (hawaṙi), կաւառն (kawaṙn).

Noun

գետառ (getaṙ)

  1. riverbed
  2. river-shore
  3. outbranching river

Declension

Descendants

References

  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), գետառ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 205
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), գետ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935