The article is devoted to a comprehensive lexical analysis of M. Simonyan’s English-Armenian dictionary, “Small Dictionary from the English Language, Translated into the Armenian Dialect” (Madras, 1803). Using the example of the first English-Armenian dictionary, the study analyzes the qualitative and structural features of the target language—Armenian. Following a brief presentation of the historical context, the primary focus shifts to the manifestations of linguistic variability, orthographic irregularities, and thematic groups present in the dictionary. The rich dialectal layer of the dictionary and the use of vernacular synonyms undergo special examination. Through a comparative analysis with the Old and New Haigazian dictionaries, M. Simonyan’s terminological and neological efforts (morphological, derivational, and semantic coinages, particularly in the realm of rhetorical terms) are highlighted. The unique value of this work during the transitional phase of Armenian lexicography is demonstrated.
The term "Haykabanutyun" often comes across in scientific literature and fiction. The concept of "Haykabanutyun," however, hasn't been defined so far and we cannot explain what did Haykabanutyun/Haykaban specifically mean.
The author tackles this concern in this article, based on diverse dictionaries and other sources....
The problem of transliteration of foreign proper names is more than painful for Armenians. Unlike ancient times, when Armenian was united, today a foreign word is transliterated into Armenian in three or four ways, due to the lack of canonized laws. The study is the first section of a series of articles examining the p...
This article is one of a series that deals with the transliteration of foreign proper names into Armenian (the way to transcribe foreign names in Armenian characters).
The first part of the series was devoted to the Middle Eastern languages (Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Azerbaijani); see Armen Michaelian, «The Principl...
Dyachronical analysis of levels of word formation in the Old Armenian and Modern Armenian languages shows that certain old Armenian analytic constructions have been transformed into compound words. These, however, have preserved a meaningful plan in the Modern Armenian language, sometimes revealing differences in the s...
The question of the genetic relationship between Armenian and the Tocharian languages has not yet been the subject of a separate comprehensive study. The extant documentary evidence for the Tocharian languages (conventionally designated as Tocharian A and Tocharian B) dates to the fifth and sixth centuries CE, as does...
Վազգեն Համբարձումյան· Language and Linguistics· 0 citations
This study focuses on a comparative analysis of the phonetic transformations that occurred during the transition from Sanskrit to Prakrit, and the sound changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic languages (known as Grimm's Law). Adopting a qualitative approach based on documentary analysis, this study primarily util...
Mahendra Bhandari· Haimaprabha· 0 citations
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