-կերտ

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See also: կերտ

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Armenian -կերտ (-kert).

Pronunciation

Suffix

-կերտ (-kert)

  1. forming city names after the name of its founder
    Ստեփան (Stepʻan, Stepan) + ‎-ակերտ (-akert) → ‎Ստեփանակերտ (Stepʻanakert, Stepanakert)

Derived terms

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Iranian; compare Parthian -𐭊𐭓𐭕 (-krt /⁠-kirt/, /-gird⁠/), Middle Persian 𐭪𐭫𐭲 (klt /⁠-kirt/, /-gird⁠/), and see there for more.[1][2][3] Found also in several wholly-borrowed terms (see in the Related terms section). In Armenian, the same etymon functions also as a noun կերտ (kert, building, construction) and a verb կերտեմ (kertem, to make, construct), but these are not attested at an early date, therefore Armenian words ending in -կերտ (-kert) are not genuine compounds from a synchronic point of view.[3]

Suffix

-կերտ (-kert)

  1. forming words with the meaning made by or out of that which is expressed by the base word
    կաւ (kaw, clay) + ‎-ակերտ (-akert) → ‎կաւակերտ (kawakert, made of clay)
    աստուած (astuac, God) + ‎-ակերտ (-akert) → ‎աստուածակերտ (astuacakert, made by God)
    ձեռն (jeṙn, hand) + ‎-ակերտ (-akert) → ‎ձեռակերտ (jeṙakert, made by hand)
  2. forming city names after the name of its founder
    Synonym: -ապատ (-apat)
    Տիգրան (Tigran, Tigranes) + ‎-ակերտ (-akert) → ‎Տիգրանակերտ (Tigranakert, Tigranakert)
  3. (rare) forming words with an agentive meaning
    նկար (nkar, embroidery) + ‎-ակերտ (-akert) → ‎նկարակերտ (nkarakert, embroiderer)

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Armenian: -կերտ (-kert)

References

  1. ^ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 168–172
  2. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կերտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 579–580
  3. 3.0 3.1 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, pages 263–266