ամուրի

Armenian

Etymology

From Old Armenian ամուրի (amuri); see below.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ամուրի • (amuri)

  1. unmarried, single, celibate (usually of men)

Declension

Noun

ամուրի • (amuri)

  1. unmarried, single person, celibate (usually of men)
  2. widowed man

Declension

Old Armenian

Etymology

Usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-putr-iyo-, composed of *n̥- (privative prefix) and the root which yielded Sanskrit पुत्र (putrá, son). Thus, a semantic development ‘without a child’ → ‘unmarried’ or ‘male without a legitimate child’ → ‘man without own family, unmarried’ is implied. This etymology is formally uncertain.

Classical attestations seem to point to a basic meaning ‘unmarried or widowed (woman)’ which leads Martirosyan to tentatively derive the word from Proto-Armenian *am(w)uiríya-, from *an-wir-íya- (husbandless), composed of the privative suffix *an- (whence ան- (an-)) and *wir- (man, husband), from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós. Compare այրի (ayri).

Adjective

ամուրի • (amuri)

  1. unmarried, single, widowed
    վիճակ ամուրեացvičak amureacʻcelibacy
  2. (post-Classical) wifeless

Declension

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Noun

ամուրի • (amuri)

  1. unmarried woman

Declension

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Descendants

  • Armenian: ամուրի (amuri)

References

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ամուրի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ամուրի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ամուրի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “amuri”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 53–54
  • Godel, Robert (1975) An introduction to the study of classical Armenian, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 79
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