ամուսին

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ամուսին (amusin)

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑmuˈsin/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑmuˈsin/,

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ամուսին • (amusin)

1. husband
2. spouse (husband or wife)
3. life partner

• (husband): մարդ (mard)

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₁ewk-eno/eh₂- (“one whose habitation, habits (or the like) is together with (somebody else)”), from *sem- (“together”) and *h₁ewk- (“be accustomed, learn”), whence ուսանիմ (usanim).^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]} By surface analysis, ամ- (am-) +‎ ուսանիմ (usanim) +‎ -ին (-in). Among the cognates compare especially Sanskrit समोकस् (sám-okas, “dwelling together, closely united with”), ओकस् (okás, “homestead, house”) and possibly Latin uxor.

Had also been compared to Persian آموسنی (āmūsnī, “co-wife”),^{[9][10][11][12][13]} but Ačaṙean considers the similarity to be accidental due to the difference in meaning.^[3]

ամուսին • (amusin)

1. consort, spouse (husband or wife)
   • 5th century, Eznik Kołbacʻi, Ełc ałandocʻ  :

     Զի առնիցէ անդ զԱդամ եւ զամուսինն նորա

     Zi aṙnicʻē and zAdam ew zamusinn nora

ամուսին • (amusin)

1. married
   • 5th century, Bible, Joel 1.8:

     Ողբա առ իս իբրեւ զհարսն քրձազգած ի վերայ առն իւրոյ ամուսնոյ։

     Ołba aṙ is ibrew zharsn kʻrjazgac i veray aṙn iwroy amusnoy.

     Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

2. (rare) coeternal, of the same age

• → Armenian: ամուսին (amusin) (learned)

• Awgerean, Mkrtičʻ, Čēlalean, Grigor (1865) “ամուսին”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 30a
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “ամուսին”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 72a
• J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1837) “ամուսին”, in Baṙgirkʻ i barbaṙ hay ew italakan [Armenian–Italian Dictionary], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 45b
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ամուսին”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 17a
• Xačʻatryan, Lalik (2003) “ամուսին”, in Grabari bacʻatrakan baṙaran (Jewabanoren tararžekʻ baṙer) [Explanatory Dictionary of Old Armenian (Morphologically Polysemantic Words)] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Zangak-97, →ISBN, page 22