այրի

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian այրի (ayri).

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

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այրի • (ayri)

1. widow or widower (usually a widow)

   այրի կին ― ayri kin ― widow

   այրի տղամարդ ― ayri tġamard ― widower

այրի • (ayri)

1. widowed

Through haplology from Proto-Armenian *ananiríya-, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-h₂nēr-yeh₂-, composed of the privative prefix *n̥-, whence ան- (an-), and *h₂nḗr (“man, husband”), whence այր (ayr).

այրի • (ayri)

1. widow
2. (rare) widower

այրի • (ayri)

1. widowed

• → Armenian: այրի (ayri) (learned)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “այրի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “այրի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “այրի”, 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) “ayri”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 53, 63