վեց

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Armenian[edit]

Armenian numbers (edit)
60
 ←  5 6 7  → 
    Cardinal: վեց (vecʿ)
    Ordinal: վեցերորդ (vecʿerord)
    Multiplier: վեցակի (vecʿaki)
    Distributive: վեցական (vecʿakan)
    Group collective: վեցյակ (vecʿyak)
    Collective prefix: վեց- (vecʿ-)

Etymology[edit]

From Old Armenian վեց (vecʿ).

Pronunciation[edit]

Numeral[edit]

վեց (vecʿ)

  1. six

Declension[edit]

Old Armenian[edit]

Old Armenian cardinal numbers
 <  5 6 7  > 
    Cardinal : վեց (vecʿ)
    Ordinal : վեցերորդ (vecʿerord)
    Adverbial : վեցիցս (vecʿicʿs)
    Multiplier : վեցակի (vecʿaki)
    Collective : վեցեքին (vecʿekʿin)

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. To account for initial վ- (v-) instead of expected ք- (kʿ-) 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).[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Numeral[edit]

վեց (vecʿ)

  1. six
    վեց ամիսvecʿ amissix months

Usage notes[edit]

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

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: վեց (vecʿ)

References[edit]

  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[1] (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[2], Doctoral Thesis, Leiden University, page 207

Further reading[edit]

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “վեց”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 333ab
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “վեց”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Petrosean, Matatʿeay (1879), “վեց”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy