ամուրի

Armenian

Etymology

From Old Armenian ամուրի (amuri); see below.

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Adjective

ամուրի • (amuri)

1. unmarried, single, celibate (usually of men)

Declension

Noun

ամուրի • (amuri)

1. unmarried, single person, celibate (usually of men)
2. widowed man

Declension

Old Armenian

Etymology

Usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-putr-iyo-, composed of *n̥- (“privative prefix”) and the root which yielded Sanskrit पुत्र (putrá, “son”). Thus, a semantic development ‘without a child’ → ‘unmarried’ or ‘male without a legitimate child’ → ‘man without own family, unmarried’ is implied. This etymology is formally uncertain.

Classical attestations seem to point to a basic meaning ‘unmarried or widowed (woman)’ which leads Martirosyan to tentatively derive the word from Proto-Armenian *am(w)uiríya-, from *an-wir-íya- (“husbandless”), composed of the privative suffix *an- (whence ան- (an-)) and *wir- (“man, husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós. Compare այրի (ayri).

Adjective

ամուրի • (amuri)

1. unmarried, single, widowed

   վիճակ ամուրեաց ― vičak amureacʻ ― celibacy

2. (post-Classical) wifeless

Declension

vow=on

Noun

ամուրի • (amuri)

1. unmarried woman

Declension

vow=on

Descendants

• Armenian: ամուրի (amuri)

References

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ամուրի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ամուրի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ամուրի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “amuri”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 53–54
• Godel, Robert (1975) An introduction to the study of classical Armenian, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 79