յաւէտ

An Iranian borrowing; compare Parthian [Book Pahlavi needed] (yʾwyt(ʾn)' /⁠yāwēd(ān)⁠/, “always, eternally”), Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (yʾwyt' /⁠jāwēd⁠/), Persian جاوید (jâvid, “eternal”).

յաւէտ • (yawēt)

1. more, more strongly, rather

   յաւէտ զի ― yawēt zi ― above all, principally, especially

2. always, eternally

• յաւէժ (yawēž)

• → Armenian: հավետ (havet)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “յաւէտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “յաւէտ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 198
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “յաւէտ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy