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Armenian
Etymology
From Old Armenian -կերտ (-kert).
Pronunciation
Suffix
-կերտ • (-kert)
- forming city names after the name of its founder
- Ստեփան (Stepʻan, “Stepan”) + -ակերտ (-akert) → Ստեփանակերտ (Stepʻanakert, “Stepanakert”)
Derived terms
Old Armenian
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)
- 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”)
- forming city names after the name of its founder
- Synonym: -ապատ (-apat)
- Տիգրան (Tigran, “Tigranes”) + -ակերտ (-akert) → Տիգրանակերտ (Tigranakert, “Tigranakert”)
- (rare) forming words with an agentive meaning
- նկար (nkar, “embroidery”) + -ակերտ (-akert) → նկարակերտ (nkarakert, “embroiderer”)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 168–172
- ^ 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
- ↑ 3.0 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