դրանդի

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Armenian դրանդի (drandi).

Pronunciation

Noun

դրանդի • (drandi)

  1. threshold, doorstep
  2. (dialectal) the upper horizontal part of the door-frame
  3. (dialectal) doorframe

Declension

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From դր- (dr-, door) + Proto-Armenian *and- (door-frame, vestibule), whence also անդաստակ (andastak) and perhaps անդ (and), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énHt-ih₂; cognate with Sanskrit आता (ātā, door-frame, door-posts), Avestan 𐬄𐬌𐬚𐬌𐬌𐬁 (ąiθiiā, door-post), Latin antae (square pilasters, wall posts of a temple), Old Norse ǫnd (front room, corridor).[1][2][3]

Noun

դրանդի • (drandi)

  1. space before a door, porch
  2. threshold

Declension

Descendants

  • Armenian: դրանդի (drandi)

References

  1. Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 36–37
  2. Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “անդ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  3. Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “*and-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 74

Further reading

  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “դրանդի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “դրանդի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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