գան

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Armenian գան (gan); see it for more.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

գան (gan)

  1. (archaic) beating, bastinado, battery, blows with a stick

Declension[edit]

Old Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰn̥-(n)i-, from *gʷʰen-.[1][2][3]

Noun[edit]

գան (gan)

  1. beating, bastinado, battery, blows with a stick, whip, lash, whipping
    գան հարկանելgan harkanelto cudgel, to strike with a stick, to whip
    գան ըմպելgan əmpelto receive a bastinado, beating, blows, to be beaten with a stick or whip
  2. scourge, chastisement, punishment
  3. wound

Declension[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  2. ^ Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 42–43
  3. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 198

Further reading[edit]

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