բուզաղթն

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Old Armenian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

The origin is uncertain. Martirosyan proposes to interpret this as a compound of *բուզ- (*buz-), *բոզ- (*boz-, sun, light) and *աղթ- (*ałtʻ-, darkness). For the first compare բուզի (buzi, sun), for the second աղտամուղտ (ałtamułt, darkness). Typologically compare dialectal մութ-ու-լուս (mutʻ-u-lus, twilight, literally dark-and-light).

Noun[edit]

բուզաղթն (buzałtʻn)

  1. darkness

References[edit]

  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 192
  • Eremia Meġrecʻi (1698) “բուզաղթն”, in Baṙgirkʻ hayocʻ [Armenian Dictionary] (in Armenian), Livorno: Sargis Evdokiacʻi Sahetʻči Press
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բուզաղթն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press