սան

Armenian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Armenian սան (san).

Noun

սան • (san)

  1. nursling
  2. pupil; alumnus
  3. godchild
  4. adopted child, foster child
Declension

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian սան (san).

Noun

սան • (san)

  1. kettle, cauldron
Declension
Derived terms
  • սանակալ (sanakal)

Old Armenian

Etymology 1

Zero-grade of the root սուն- (sun-, feeding, fostering).

Noun

սան • (san)

  1. nursling; foster child
  2. pupil, scholar
  3. godchild
Declension
Derived terms
  • սանական (sanakan)
  • սանակից (sanakicʻ)
  • սանահայր (sanahayr)
  • սանամայր (sanamayr)
Descendants
  • Armenian: սան (san)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 170–171
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “սան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy

Etymology 2

From Urartian 𒃻𒉌 (ša2-ni /⁠šani⁠/, kettle), from Akkadian 𒊺𒉡 (šen-nu /⁠šannu(m), šennu(m)⁠/, metal kettle or cauldron), itself a loanword from Sumerian 𒍏𒊿 (URUDUšen /⁠šen⁠/, a copper vessel).[1][2][3][4][5]

Noun

սան • (san)

  1. kettle, cauldron
Declension
Descendants

References

  1. Ġapʻancʻyan, Grigor (1940) Urartui patmutʻyunə [The History of Urartu] (in Armenian), Yerevan: University Press, page 38
  2. Kapancjan, G. A. (1956) Историко-лингвистические работы: К начальной истории армян: Древняя Малая Азия [Historical-Linguistic Works: Towards an early history of the Armenians. Ancient Asia Minor] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 216
  3. Džaukjan, G. B. (1985) “Урартские заимствования в армянском языке [Urartian loanwords in Armenian]”, in Ju. V. Bromlej et al., editors, Культурное наследие Востока: проблемы, поиски, суждения (in Russian), Leningrad: Nauka, page 368 of 364–372
  4. J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 430, 432, 466
  5. Fournet, Arnaud (2013) “About the Vocalic System of Armenian Words of Substratic Origin”, in Archív Orientalni, volume 81, number 2, pages 207–222

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 170b
  • Arutjunjan, N. V. (2001) M. L. Xačikjan, editor, Корпус урартских клинообразных надписей [Corpus of Urartian Cuneiform Inscriptions] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 462b
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “սան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Greppin, John A. C. (1991) “Some effects of the Hurro-Urartian people and their languages upon the earliest Armenians”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 111, number 4, with additional notes by I. M. Diakonoff, page 726b
  • Greppin, John A. C. (2010) “Urartian Sibilants in Armenian”, in Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, volume 4, number 1, pages 179–182
  • Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 957
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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