The author highlights a number of words with different spellings in contemporary Western Armenian.
Based on various Western and Eastern Armenian dictionaries, the author speculates why these have different spellings and when they started having diverse spellings. The author analyses the different spellings of these words based on diverse criteria, like the existence (or non-existence) of similar suffixes/prefixes, shifts of pronunciations of certain letters, or historical changes in the meaning of the word, and suggests a unified/single spelling for each word with an eye to unified spelling with contemporary Eastern Armenian.
The author highlights a number of words in Western Armenian and examines their misuse, particularly in Western Armenian. In certain cases the author refers to their usage in contemporary Eastern Armenian, and basing his comments on various Western and Eastern Armenian dictionaries, underlines the nuances in their meani...
The author analyzes a number of words in Western Armenian and their misuse, particularly in Western Armenian. In some cases, he refers to their usage in contemporary Eastern Armenian. He bases his comments on various Western and Eastern Armenian dictionaries, highlighting nuances in their meanings and offering suggesti...
Norayr Poghosyan's dictionary, Norahayt barer... is a valuable work that follows the tradition of lexicographers who made huge contributions in the field of Armenian lexicography. This dictionary presents the native and borrowed words used by Armenians and found in 16-18th century Armenian manuscripts.
The article focu...
This article examines the history of the Russian adjective “alyj” (scarlet/bright red), which is of Turkic origin. The word is a common Turkic lexical unit found in nearly all Turkic languages, where it carries various meanings such as “noble”, “magical”, and others. The study addresses the semantic and functional char...
The study of the evolution of tense and mood category forms in Armenian dialects from the viewpoint of integral formal and semantic description of the verbal system of the Armenian language is of central importance. This historical development underwent significantly diverse changes in the course of time and in various...
One of the renowned figures of Armenian literature, Kostanm Zaryan (1885-1969) wrote several books and a single book of poetry, Oreri Bsage (The Crown of Days).
The book was published in 1922 and stood out for its unique language structures and portrayals of acts and descriptions through unorthodox combinations of inco...
