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Old Armenian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mewtʰi-. Cognates include Sanskrit मेथि (methi, “pillar, post”), Lithuanian miẽtas (“stake, picket”), Latvian miets (“stake, picket”), Latin meta (“goal; end, boundary”) and Old Norse meiðr (“beam; pole; tree”).
Noun
մոյթ • (moytʻ)
- stay, support, prop, jamb, pillar, pilaster, stanchion, buttress
- մոյթ դնել ― moytʻ dnel ― to prop, to support, to shore up
- մոյթ լարակալ ― moytʻ larakal ― bridge of a musical instrument
Declension
Descendants
References
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մոյթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մոյթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press