լեառնակ
Old Armenian
Alternative forms
- լեառնական (leaṙnakan) (textual variant)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λάρναξ (lárnax), which must have stood in the Greek original of Paterica and was correctly transliterated by the Armenian translator as *լառնակ (*laṙnak). This was then "corrected" to լեառնակ (leaṙnak) by the later copying scribes, who were unfamiliar with the rare word and confused it with լեառն (leaṙn, “mountain”) and its derivatives, e.g. լեառնական (leaṙnakan, “mountainous”).
Noun
լեառնակ • (leaṙnak)
- larnax
- Varkʻ srbocʻ harancʾ [Paterica] Vasn poṙnkutʻean:
- […] եւ մտեալ անկցիս ՚ի վերայ լեառնակի հարցն եւ ասա […]
- […] ew mteal ankcʻis ’i veray leaṙnaki harcʻn ew asa […]
- […] and having entered, you shall fall on the larnax of the fathers and say...
- […] եւ մտեալ անկցիս ՚ի վերայ լեառնակի հարցն եւ ասա […]
Usage notes
The word is not included in the standard dictionaries of Old Armenian. It is attested only once in the Armenian Paterica and was brought to light in 1944 by the Georgian Armenologist Ilia Abuladze.
Declension
i-a-type or i-type
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | լեառնակ (leaṙnak) | լեառնակք (leaṙnakkʻ) | |
| genitive | լեառնակի (leaṙnaki) | ? | |
| dative | լեառնակի (leaṙnaki) | ? | |
| accusative | լեառնակ (leaṙnak) | լեառնակս (leaṙnaks) | |
| ablative | լեառնակէ (leaṙnakē) | ? | |
| instrumental | ? | ? | |
| locative | լեառնակի (leaṙnaki) | լեառնակս (leaṙnaks) | |
| the instrumental singular and the genitive/dative/instrumental plural are not attested, which does not allow determining whether the word followed an i-type or an i-a-type declension | |||
References
- Abulaje, Ilia (1944) “Hin hayerenum gorcacvac mi nor baṙ [A New Word Used in Old Armenian]”, in Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR: Social Sciences[1] (in Armenian), volumes 1–2, pages 107–108
- Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1944) “Haykakankʻ A [Armeniaca I]”, in Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR: Social Sciences[2] (in Armenian), volume 5, page 25
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “Haykakankʻ (Armeniaca)”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 625