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Armenian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Armenian սան (san).
Noun
սան • (san)
- nursling
- pupil; alumnus
- godchild
- adopted child, foster child
Declension
Etymology 2
Learned borrowing from Old Armenian սան (san).
Noun
սան • (san)
- kettle, cauldron
Declension
Derived terms
Old Armenian
Etymology 1
Zero-grade of the root սուն- (sun-, “feeding, fostering”).
Noun
սան • (san)
- nursling; foster child
- pupil, scholar
- godchild
Declension
o-type
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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սան (san)
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սանք (sankʻ)
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| genitive
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սանոյ (sanoy)
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սանոց (sanocʻ)
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| dative
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սանոյ (sanoy)
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սանոց (sanocʻ)
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| accusative
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սան (san)
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սանս (sans)
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| ablative
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սանոյ (sanoy)
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սանոց (sanocʻ)
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| instrumental
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սանով (sanov)
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սանովք (sanovkʻ)
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| locative
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սան (san)
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սանս (sans)
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Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 170–171
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “սան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
Etymology 2
From Urartian 𒃻𒉌 (ša2-ni /šani/, “kettle”), from Akkadian 𒊺𒉡 (šen-nu /šannu(m), šennu(m)/, “metal kettle or cauldron”), itself a loanword from Sumerian 𒍏𒊿 (URUDUšen /šen/, “a copper vessel”).
Noun
սան • (san)
- kettle, cauldron
Declension
Descendants
References
- ^ Ġapʻancʻyan, Grigor (1940) Urartui patmutʻyunə [The History of Urartu] (in Armenian), Yerevan: University Press, page 38
- ^ Kapancjan, G. A. (1956) Историко-лингвистические работы: К начальной истории армян: Древняя Малая Азия [Historical-Linguistic Works: Towards an early history of the Armenians. Ancient Asia Minor] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 216
- ^ Džaukjan, G. B. (1985) “Урартские заимствования в армянском языке [Urartian loanwords in Armenian]”, in Ju. V. Bromlej et al., editors, Культурное наследие Востока: проблемы, поиски, суждения (in Russian), Leningrad: Nauka, page 368 of 364–372
- ^ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 430, 432, 466
- ^ Fournet, Arnaud (2013) “About the Vocalic System of Armenian Words of Substratic Origin”, in Archív Orientalni, volume 81, number 2, pages 207–222
- ^ Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 14
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 170b
- Arutjunjan, N. V. (2001) M. L. Xačikjan, editor, Корпус урартских клинообразных надписей [Corpus of Urartian Cuneiform Inscriptions] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 462b
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “սան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- 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 726b
- Greppin, John A. C. (2010) “Urartian Sibilants in Armenian”, in Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, volume 4, number 1, pages 179–182
- 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 957
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy