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Old Armenian
Etymology
A Semitic loan: compare Akkadian 𒁰𒈦𒆕 (/nayyalu, nayālu, nālu/, “roe deer”), secondarily derived from 𒁰𒈦 (ayyalu, ayālu) of the same meaning, descended from Proto-Semitic *ʔayyal- (“stag”), with the abstract marker 𒌓 (/ūt/).[1] A contamination with Hurrian (na-a-li /nāli/, “deer”) might be the cause of the intrusive nasal initial found both in Akkadian and Armenian.[2]
Noun
անալութ • (analutʻ)
- a kind of deer, hind (probably fallow deer)
5th century,
Bible,
Book of Deuteronomy 14.4–5:
- այս անասունք են զորս ուտիցէք․ արջառ եւ ոչխար ի հօտից, եւ նոխազ յայծեաց՝ զեղջերու եւ զայծեամն, եւ զգօմէշ եւ զխարբուզ եւ զայծքաղ եւ զյամոյր եւ զանալութ
- […] ays anasunkʻ en zors uticʻēkʻ; arǰaṙ ew očʻxar i hōticʻ, ew noxaz yayceacʻ, zełǰeru ew zayceamn, ew zgōmēš ew zxarbuz ew zayckʻał ew zyamoyr ew zanalutʻ […]
- these are the beasts which ye shall eat: the cattle and the sheep from the flock, and the he-goat from the goats, the hart, and the roebuck, and the buffalo, and the xarbuz, and the antelope, and the yamoyr, and the analutʿ
Usage notes
The meaning “giraffe”, which has been assumed on the basis of a Biblical attestation, has been misconstrued.
Declension
References
- ^ Mkrtčjan, N. A. (2005) Семитские языки и армянский [Semitic Languages and Armenian] (in Russian), Yerevan: Drazark, →ISBN, pages 257–258
- ^ Fournet, Arnaud (2013) “About the Vocalic System of Armenian Words of Substratic Origin”, in Archív Orientalni, volume 81, number 2, pages 207–222
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “անալութ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “անալութ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “analut‘”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 65
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “անալութ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy