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Armenian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old Armenian գան (gan).
Pronunciation
Noun
գան • (gan)
- (archaic) beating, bastinado, battery, blows with a stick
Declension
Old Armenian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰn̥-(n)i-, from *gʷʰen-.[1][2][3]
Noun
գան • (gan)
- beating, bastinado, battery, blows with a stick, whip, lash, whipping
- գան հարկանել ― gan harkanel ― to cudgel, to strike with a stick, to whip
- գան ըմպել ― gan əmpel ― to receive a bastinado, beating, blows, to be beaten with a stick or whip
- scourge, chastisement, punishment
- wound
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Armenian: գան (gan) (learned)
References
- ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
- ^ Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 42–43
- ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 198
Further reading
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “գան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy