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Old Armenian
Etymology
Uncertain. Usually treated as a reduplicated formation. Perhaps somehow connected with Proto-Georgian-Zan *ṭanṭal- and Ossetian дзӕндӕл (ʒændæl).
Verb
դանդաղիմ • (dandałim)
- (intransitive) to be slow, to delay, to tarry, to hesitate
5th century,
Bible,
John 5.7:
[1]- Պատասխանի ետ նմա հիւանդն․ Տէ՛ր, ո՛չ զոք ունիմ, թէ յորժամ ջուրքն յուզիցին արկցէ զիս յաւազանն․ եւ մինչ ես դանդաղիմ, ա՛յլ ոք քան զիս յառաջագոյն իջանէ։
- Patasxani et nma hiwandn; Tḗr, óčʻ zokʻ unim, tʻē yoržam ǰurkʻn yuzicʻin arkcʻē zis yawazann; ew minčʻ es dandałim, áyl okʻ kʻan zis yaṙaǰagoyn iǰanē.
- Translation by King James Bible
- The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
Usage notes
In John 5:7, translates Ancient Greek ἔρχομαι (érkhomai). The Old Georgian version has მივტონტმანებდი (mivṭonṭmanebdi, “I was staggering”) in the same passage, which is from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ṭanṭal-.
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References
- ^ Künzle, Beda O. (1984) Das altarmenische Evangelium / L'Evangile arménien ancien, volume I: Edition zweier altarmenischer Handschriften / Edition de deux manuscrits
arméniens anciens, Bern, Frankfurt am Main and New York: Peter Lang, page 231b
Further reading
More information
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “դանդաղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 620–621, does not accept any of the etymologies, specifying only that this is a reduplication of an unknown root *դաղ (*dał)
- Aġayan, Ēduard (1974) Baṙakʻnnakan ew stugabanakan hetazotutʻyunner [Lexicological and Etymological Studies] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 58, derives from Proto-Indo-European *dʰel- (“to tremble”), with dialectal Norwegian dalla, dulla (“to walk on tiptoe; to trip”), Dutch dallen (“to amble”), Norwegian dilte (“to jog along”) as cognates
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “դանդաղիմ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 594a
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1991) “Stugabanutʻyunner [Etymologies]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal] (in Armenian), number 2, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 38, having initially accepted Ałayan's etymology, later, stressing the “slow, dim, stupid” sense of դանդաղ (dandaġ) found in dialects, derives from Proto-Indo-European *dʰandʰəlo-, from a hypothetical root *dʰandʰ- (“slow, lazy, stupid”) reconstructed by him on the basis of Pali dhandha (“dull, slow”)
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “դանդաղ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 183a, the same as 1991
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 191
- Künzle, Beda O. (1984) “dandałim”, in Das altarmenische Evangelium / L'Evangile arménien ancien, volume II: Lexikon / Lexique, Bern, Frankfurt am Main and New York: Peter Lang, page 178a
- Meillet, Antoine (1898) “Etymologies arméniennes”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume 10, page 279 of 274–282
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “դանդաղիմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 132b
- Sarjveladze, Sophio (2012) “The Problem of Establishing the Recensions of the Georgian Version of the Gospels”, in Christian Amphoux, James Keith Elliott, editors, Textual Research on the Psalms and Gospels / Recherches textuelles sur les psaumes et les évangiles: Papers from the Tbilisi Colloquium on the Editing and History of Biblical Manuscripts. Actes du Colloque de Tbilisi, 19-20 septembre 2007 (Novum Testamentum, Supplements; 142), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 186–187