հան

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian հան (han).

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

հան • (han)

1. (archaic) grandmother

• տատ (tat)

• հանի (hani)

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- (“old woman, ancestor”). Cognates include Latin anus (“old woman”), Ancient Greek ἀννίς (annís, “grandmother”), Lithuanian anyta (“mother-in-law”), Hittite [script needed] (ḫanna-, “grandmother”). The by-form հանի (hani) may derive from *h₂en-ih₂ equivalent to Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- with the feminine suffix *-ih₂.

հան • (han)

1. grandmother

• հանիկ (hanik)

• աներ (aner)

• → Armenian: հան (han) (learned)
• → Old Georgian: ჰანი (hani)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “հան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “հան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “հան”, 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) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 388