բուզաղթն

Old Armenian

Alternative forms
  • բազոխտ (bazoxt)
  • բազուխթ (bazuxtʻ)
  • բազուիթ (bazuitʻ) (misspelling)

Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Martirosyan proposes to interpret this as a compound of *բուզ- (*buz-), *բոզ- (*boz-, “sun, light”) and *աղթ- (*ałtʻ-, “darkness”). For the first compare բուզի (buzi, “sun”), for the second աղտամուղտ (ałtamułt, “darkness”). Typologically compare dialectal մութ-ու-լուս (mutʻ-u-lus, “twilight”, literally “dark-and-light”).

Noun

բուզաղթն • (buzałtʻn)

  1. darkness

References
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 192
  • Eremia Meġrecʻi (1698) “բուզաղթն”, in Baṙgirkʻ hayocʻ [Armenian Dictionary] (in Armenian), Livorno: Sargis Evdokiacʻi Sahetʻči Press
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բուզաղթն”, 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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