թքանեմ

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From թուք (tʻukʻ) + -ան- (-an-).

Verb

թքանեմ • (tʻkʻanem)  (aorist indicative թքի)

  1. to spit; to spit out; to spit upon, to fling, to cast, to spout
    ստէպ թքանելstēp tʻkʻanelto spit often, or continually, to be always spitting
    թքանել ի խօսելնtʻkʻanel i xōselnto sputter
    արիւն թքանելariwn tʻkʻanelto spit blood
    թքանել ընդ երեսս/յերեսս ուրուքtʻkʻanel ənd eress/yeress urukʻto spit upon a person, in his face
  2. to vomit, to throw up
  3. (figuratively) to slight, to disdain, to contemn openly, to treat with scorn, to point one's finger at, to set at nought

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Armenian: թքել (tʻkʻel)

References

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “թքանեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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