անգի

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • յանգի (yangi)

Etymology

The origin is uncertain. According to Martirosyan, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (snake) and related to օձ (ōj).

Pronunciation

Adjective

անգի • (angi) (superlative ամենաանգի)

  1. (dialectal, Karabakh) thin, emaciated
    անգի կտրելangi ktrelto become thin

Declension

Derived terms

  • լղար-անգի (lġar-angi)

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “անգի”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 95b
  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “անգի”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “անգի”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 51a
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “*angi”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 70
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