արահետ

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian արահետ (arahet).

Pronunciation

Noun

արահետ • (arahet)

  1. path; track; trail

Declension

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

  • առհետ (aṙhet)
  • րահետ (rahet) poetic form

Etymology

According to Ačaṙyan from այր (ayr, man) + -ա- (-a-) + հետ (het, footstep, track), i.e. “a trail left by man”.

On the other hand, according to Pʿerixanyan borrowed from Middle Median *arahēt, *arahēti, an old compound of Iranian *raθa- (chariot) + *iti-, *yāti- from *yā-, *yi- (to go), with the composite meaning of “road for chariots, road”; for the constituents compare Sanskrit रथ (ratha, chariot) and इत्या (ityā, going, stepping).

Noun

արահետ • (arahet)

  1. road
  2. street
  3. beaten track; blazed trail

Declension

Derived terms

  • անարահետ (anarahet)
  • արահետեմ (arahetem)

Descendants

  • Armenian: արահետ (arahet) (learned)

References

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “արահետ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “արահետ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “արահետ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Perixanjan, A. G. (1993) Материалы к этимологическому словарю древнеармянского языка. Часть I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 9
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “arahet”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 125
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