պեղեմ

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Old Armenian

Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bel- (to dig, cut off?) and cognate with Sanskrit बिल (bila, hole, pit) and Irish bealach (way, pass).[1][2][3][4] Others connect this verb to Urartian 𒉿𒇷 (pi-li /⁠pili⁠/, canal);[5][6][7][8][9] cognate with Hurrian 𒉿𒇷 (pe-li /⁠peli⁠/, canal), 𒉺𒆷 (pa-la /⁠pala⁠/, canal); rejected by Diakonoff on phonological grounds,[8] but Nielsen adduced the ł-conditioned -իղ- (-ił-)-եղ- (-eł-) transformation argued for in Martirosyan's etymology[10] of շեղջ (šełǰ), աբեղայ (abełay), and ասեղն (asełn) in favour of a denominal origin of the verb from **պեղ (**peł)**պիղ (**pił, canal), ultimately from Urartian.[11] Others connect Dagestani terms like Bezhta пили (pili), Tsez пелу (pelu, pipe, blood vessel), Lak ппиӏллу (pipe);[12] rejected by Nielsen on vocalic grounds but with no detail given while citing an example with the Avar-Andic -u-,[11] yet these and Dargwa -a- contrast with the -i- vocalism of the terms found in Tsezic and Lak.

Verb

պեղեմ (pełem)  (aorist indicative պեղեցի)

  1. to dig, to hollow, to excavate, to delve; to sap, to mine, to sink
    պեղել գուբս, հորսpełel gubs, horsto open a trench, to sink a well
    զարտասուաց աղբիւրս պեղելzartasuacʻ ałbiwrs pełelto shed tears
  2. to engrave

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Armenian: պեղել (peġel) (learned)

References

  1. ^ Petersson, Herbert (1916) “Beiträge zur armenischen Wortkunde”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung (in German), volume 47, number 3/4, pages 264–265
  2. ^ Petersson, Herbert (1920) Arische und armenische Studien (Lunds Universitets Årsskrift N.F. Avd. 1, Bd. 16. Nr. 3) (in German), Lund, Leipzig, page 29
  3. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “պեղել”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 72ab
  4. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 96
  5. ^ Karst, Josef (1911) “Zur ethnischen Stellung der Armenier”, in Nersēs Akinean, editor, Huschardzan: Festschrift aus Anlass des 100-jahrigen Bestandes der Mechitaristen-Kongregation in Wien (1811–1911), und des 25. Jahrganges der philosophischen Monatsschrift Handes amsorya (1887–1911) (in German), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 422,
  6. ^ Bănățeanu, Vlad (1962) “Problema lexicului urartic din limba armeană”, in Studii și cercetări lingvistice (in Romanian), volume 13, number 1, page 264 of 257–279
  7. ^ Džaukjan, G. B. (1963) Урартский и индоевропейские языки (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 101
  8. 8.0 8.1 Greppin, John A. C. (1991) “Some effects of the Hurro-Urartian people and their languages upon the earliest Armenians”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 111, number 4, with additional notes by I. M. Diakonoff, pages 726b, 728b
  9. ^ Fournet, Arnaud (2013) “About the Vocalic System of Armenian Words of Substratic Origin”, in Archív Orientalni, volume 81, number 2, page 10 of 207–222
  10. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2017) “Notes on Anatolian loanwords in Armenian”, in Pavel S. Avetisyan and Yervand H. Grekyan, editors, Bridging Times and Spaces: Papers in Ancient Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Armenian Studies Honouring Gregory E. Areshian on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Oxford: Archaeopress, page 296 of 293–306
  11. 11.0 11.1 Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, pages 13-14
  12. ^ Greppin, John A. C. (1991) “Some effects of the Hurro-Urartian people and their languages upon the earliest Armenians”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 111, number 4, with additional notes by I. M. Diakonoff, page 726

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