վեց

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Armenian

Armenian numbers (edit)
60
 ←  5 6 7  → 
    Cardinal: վեց (vecʻ)
    Ordinal: վեցերորդ (vecʻerord)
    Multiplier: վեցակի (vecʻaki)
    Distributive: վեցական (vecʻakan)
    Group collective: վեցյակ (vecʻyak)
    Collective prefix: վեց- (vecʻ-)

Etymology

From Old Armenian վեց (vecʻ).

Pronunciation

Numeral

վեց (vecʻ)

  1. six

Declension

Old Armenian

Old Armenian cardinal numbers
 <  5 6 7  > 
    Cardinal : վեց (vecʻ)
    Ordinal : վեցերորդ (vecʻerord)
    Adverbial : վեցիցս (vecʻicʻs)
    Multiplier : վեցակի (vecʻaki)
    Collective : վեցեքին (vecʻekʻin)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. To account for initial վ- (v-) instead of expected ք- (kʻ-) one assumes a by-form *suwéḱs for the Armenian, which is either a Sievers–Lindeman variant or contains a secondary *u from the ordinal *suḱso- seen in Old Prussian usts (sixth).

Numeral

վեց (vecʻ)

  1. six
    վեց ամիսvecʻ amissix months

Usage notes

The word has the following combining forms: վեց- (vecʻ-), վեշ- (veš-).

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Armenian: վեց (vecʻ)

References

  1. ^ Schmitt, Rüdiger (1980) “Die Lautgeschichte und ihre Abhängigkeit von der Etymologie, am Beispiel des Armenischen”, in M. Mayrhofer et al., editors, Lautgeschichte und Etymologie. Akten der VI. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Wien, 24.—29. September 1978 (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, page 419, footnote 25a, a proposal by Gert Klingenschmitt and Jochem Schindler
  2. ^ Viredaz, Rémy (1997) “‘Six’ en indo-européen”, in Indogermanische Forschungen (in French), volume 102, pages 115–116
  3. ^ 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 787
  4. ^ Kortlandt, Frederik (2003) Armeniaca: comparative notes, Ann Arbor: Caravan Books, pages 44, 99
  5. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2003) “Historical phonology of Classical Armenian”, in Frederik Kortlandt, Armeniaca: comparative notes, Ann Arbor: Caravan Books, page 165 of 133–211
  6. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 594
  7. ^ Kocharov, Petr (2019) Old Armenian nasal verbs : archaisms and innovations, Doctoral Thesis, Leiden University, page 207

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “վեց”, 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 333ab
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “վեց”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “վեց”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy