տարմաջուր
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Old Armenian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Most likely a native compound from տարմ (tarm, “flock of birds”) + -ա- (-a-) + ջուր (ǰur, “water”). Its original meaning may have referred to a “mythological water which is followed by a flock of locust-chasing birds”,[1] based on the assumption that տարմ (tarm) can be equated with the first element of the noun տարմահաւ (tarmahaw, “starling”).
On the other hand, a minority view holds that, while the second part of the compound is unequivocally ջուր (ǰur, “water”), the first component is seen as a borrowing from Hurro-Urartian, either from Hurrian [Term?] (/tarmani/, “source”) or from Urartian [script needed] (ta-ar-ma-ni(-li) /tārman(lə)/, “source”).[2][3]
Noun[edit]
տարմաջուր • (tarmaǰur)
- fresh spring water
References[edit]
- ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “*tarm”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 607–608, cf. also note 128
- ^ 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[1], volume 111, number 4, with additional notes by I. M. Diakonoff, page 725
- ^ Fournet, Arnaud (2013) “About the Vocalic System of Armenian Words of Substratic Origin”, in Archív Orientalni[2], volume 81, number 2, pages 207–222
Further reading[edit]
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “տարմ”, 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 387a
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “տարմաջուր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 858a
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period][3] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 425, confusing with թարմ (tʻarm)
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “տարմաջուր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 696a
- Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate[4], PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 30
Categories:
- Old Armenian compound terms
- Old Armenian terms interfixed with -ա-
- Old Armenian terms derived from Hurro-Urartian languages
- Old Armenian terms borrowed from Hurrian
- Old Armenian terms derived from Hurrian
- Old Armenian terms borrowed from Urartian
- Old Armenian terms derived from Urartian
- Old Armenian lemmas
- Old Armenian nouns