արթ-

Old Armenian

Etymology

Either from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥tʰ-, whence հարթնում (hartʿnum), or from Proto-Indo-European *ar-tʰ-, from *h₃er- (“to move, to stir; to rise, to spring”), whence Ancient Greek ἐρέθω (eréthō) with a similar extension.[1][2]

Root

արթ- • (artʿ-)

  1. awake

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ Ačaṙyan, Hračʿya (1940) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 38–39
  2. ↑ Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “արթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 313–314
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