ETYMOLOGY OF SOME ARMENIAN WORDS BEGINNING WITH THE LETTER COMBINATIONS ԱՄ-/ԱՆ-, ՀԱՄ-/ՀԱՆ-
Keywords:
sound combinations ամ-/ան-, համ-/հան,, Indo-European languages, Fenno-Ugric languages, native Armenian words, foreign borrowingsAbstract
In this article, several Armenian words with initial sound combinations ամ-/ան-, համ-/հան are analyzed. Some of these words have no etymology, others are considered to be foreign borrowings: In modern Armenian they are simple words, but in the pre-written period of the language they were compounds. The sound combinations ամ-/ան-, համ-/հան are semantically connected with Armenian words ամբողջ, ամէն, համայն, հանուր, all of which are of the same origin and have cognate forms in other Indo-European and some Fenno-Ugric languages. It is supposed that the words analyzed in the article are native Armenian words.
