ալի

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ալի (ali)

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ալի (ali)

  1. Alternative form of ալիք (alikʻ)

Declension[edit]

Old Armenian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (pale, grey). Martirosyan tentatively reconstructs the derivation as ալի (ali)Proto-Armenian *aliya-*(p)olíya-Proto-Indo-European *polyeh₂-.

Noun[edit]

ալի (ali)

  1. (usually in the plural) wave, billow, surge, swell of the sea
    ալիս յարուցանելalis yarucʻanelto agitate the waves
    հերձանել, պատառել զալիսherjanel, pataṙel zalisto cleave the waves
  2. (usually in the plural) gray hair; old age
    ծաղկիլ ալեաց, խոնարհիլ յալիսcałkil aleacʻ, xonarhil yalisto grow gray-haired, to get old
Declension[edit]
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Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • Armenian: ալիք (alikʻ)

References[edit]

  • Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 34
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ալի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ալիք”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “ali-kʿ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 14
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ալիք”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy

Etymology 2[edit]

Ačaṙyan leaves the origin open.

According to J̌ahukyan perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *əliyo-, from the root *Heh₃l- (to bend), among the cognates note especially Welsh olwyn (wheel).

Noun[edit]

ալի (ali)

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. axle
    2. millstone
    3. pulley
Usage notes[edit]
  • The word is a hapax legomenon.
  • The nominative *ալ (*al) reconstructed by Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui is probably wrong.

References[edit]

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ալի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ալ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ալի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 93a
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) “⁸el-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 307 of 307, 308
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1963) “Stugabanutʻyunner [Etymologies]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎[1] (in Armenian), number 4, Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 86–87