Գարեգին

From Old Armenian Գարեգին (Garegin).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [ɡɑɾeɡín]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [kʰɑɾekʰín]

Գարեգին • (Garegin)

1. a male given name, Garegin, Karekin

• (diminutive) Գարիկ (Garik)

• Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1942) “Գարեգին”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 21) (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 449

• Գարեգոյն (Garegoyn)
• Գահրագին (Gahragin)

According to Ačaṙyan, a native Armenian formation meaning “darling, dear, having high value”, composed of *գարի (*gari) +‎ -ա- (-a-) +‎ գին (gin, “price, value”), the unattested *գարի (*gari) presumably meaning “expensive” or “heavy” and inherited from the Proto-Indo-European ancestor of Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús, “heavy”), βάρος (báros, “weight”), Latin gravis (“heavy”), etc. The problem is that the Proto-Indo-European root for these is reconstructed with an initial *gʷ- (see *gʷréh₂us), which in Armenian would have given կ- (k-). Ačaṙean suggest that we may be dealing with a *gʷ → *gʷʰ sound change.

Գարեգին • (Garegin)

1. a male given name, Garegin

Used in the 4th and 5th centuries. Suddenly reappeared in the 13th and 16th centuries and revived again in the 19th century. In use since then.

• Armenian: Գարեգին (Garegin)

• Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1942) “Գարեգին”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 21) (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 449
• Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1944) “Haykakankʻ A [Armeniaca I]”, in HSSṘ GA Teġekagir hasarakakan gitutʻyunneri [Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR: Social Sciences]‎ (in Armenian), number 5, pages 29–30
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “Haykakankʻ (Armeniaca)”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 628a