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Old Armenian
Etymology
An Iranian borrowing; compare Parthian (yʾwyt(ʾn)' /yāwēd(ān)/, “always, eternally”), Middle Persian (yʾwyt' /jāwēd/), Persian جاوید (jâvid, “eternal”).
Adverb
յաւէտ • (yawēt)
- more, more strongly, rather
- յաւէտ զի ― yawēt zi ― above all, principally, especially
- always, eternally
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Armenian: հավետ (havet)
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “յաւէտ”, 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) “յաւէտ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 198
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “յաւէտ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy