ստեղն

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ստեղն (stełn).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ˈsteʁən/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ˈsdeʁən/,

ստեղն • (steġn)

1. key (of a piano, keyboard, etc.)
2. (poetry) dactyl
3. protruding parts of various objects
4. (archaic) branch, bough of a tree

From Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“stalk, trunk”). Cognates include Ancient Greek στέλεχος (stélekhos, “stump, stub”), στήλη (stḗlē, “stela, pillar”), Latin stolo (“shoot, scion”), Old High German stollo, Old Norse stjǫlr (“rump”), Latvian stulms (“bootleg”), Russian столб (stolb), столп (stolp) and English stalk.

ստեղն • (stełn)

1. (botany) stalk, stem, trunk
2. (botany) branch, bough, shoot

   ստեղն արձակել ― stełn arjakel ― to branch out, to ramify

3. (figuratively) something protruding: a pillar of smoke, arm of a candlestick, etc.

   ստեղն ծխոյ ― stełn cxoy ― pillar of smoke

   ստեղունք աշտանակաց ― stełunkʻ aštanakacʻ ― branches of a candelabrum

   ստեղունք եղջերուաց ― stełunkʻ ełǰeruacʻ ― antlers or branches of stags' horns

   ստեղունք դաշնակի ― stełunkʻ dašnaki ― (post-classical) keys, key-board, finger-board of a piano-forte

4. (poetry) dactyl
5. (music) a kind of Armenian chant
6. the three arms of the Armenian letter ա (a)

• → Armenian: ստեղն (steġn) (learned)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ստեղն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ստեղն”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ստեղն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press