մոյթ

Old Armenian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mewtʰi-. Cognates include Sanskrit मेथि (methi, “pillar, post”), Lithuanian miẽtas (“stake, picket”), Latvian miets (“stake, picket”), Latin meta (“goal; end, boundary”) and Old Norse meiðr (“beam; pole; tree”).

Noun

մոյթ • (moytʻ)

  1. stay, support, prop, jamb, pillar, pilaster, stanchion, buttress
    մոյթ դնել ― moytʻ dnel ― to prop, to support, to shore up
    մոյթ լարակալ ― moytʻ larakal ― bridge of a musical instrument

Declension
i-type
singular plural
nominative մոյթ (moytʻ) մոյթք (moytʻkʻ)
genitive մութի (mutʻi) մութից (mutʻicʻ)
dative մութի (mutʻi) մութից (mutʻicʻ)
accusative մոյթ (moytʻ) մոյթս (moytʻs)
ablative մութէ (mutʻē) մութից (mutʻicʻ)
instrumental մութիւ (mutʻiw) մութիւք (mutʻiwkʻ)
locative մութի (mutʻi) մոյթս (moytʻs)

Descendants
  • Armenian: մույթ (muytʻ)

References
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մոյթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մոյթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
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