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Old Armenian
Etymology
Formed within Armenian as մուրտ (murt) + -աստան (-astan) or wholly borrowed from Middle Iranian: compare Persian موردستان (murdestân, a toponym, literally “myrtle-place”).[1][2][3]
Noun
մուրտաստան • (murtastan)
- myrtle-grove
5th century,
Bible,
Book of Judges 1.35:
[4]- Եւ սկսաւ ամուրհացին բնակել ի լերինն մուրտաստանի (var. մուրաստանի)․ ուր արջք և աղուէսք ի մուրտաստանսն (var. մուրաստանն) և ի Սաղապին։
- Ew sksaw amurhacʻin bnakel i lerinn murtastani (var. murastani); ur arǰkʻ ew ałuēskʻ i murtastansn (var. murastann) ew i Sałapin.
- And the Amorite began to dwell in the mountain of myrtle-grove, in which bears, and foxes, in myrtle-grove, and in Thalabin.
Usage notes
In the Bible renders Ancient Greek Μυρσινών (Mursinṓn). Sometimes treated as a proper noun.
Declension
References
- ^ Angelus à S. Joseph (1684) Gazophylacium linguae Persarum, Amsterdam, page 231
- ^ Tʻireakʻean, Yarutʻiwn (1914) “մուրտաստան”, in Ariahay baṙaran : Norog tesutʻeambkʻ ew yaweluacovkʻ [Armeno-Aryan Dictionary] (in Armenian), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 276
- ^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 333
- ^ Zōhrapean, Yovhannēs, editor (1805), Astuacašunčʻ matean Hin ew Nor Ktakaranacʻ [Bible: Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments], volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 473
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մուրտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 364b
- Awgerean, Mkrtičʻ, Čēlalean, Grigor (1865) “մուրտաստան”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 573b
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մուրտաստան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy