արգատ

From Middle Armenian արգատ (argat).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): [ɑɾˈɡɑt]
• Hyphenation: ար‧գատ

արգատ • (argat)

1. Alternative form of արքատ (arkʿat)

Ačaṙyan does not record any etymological attempts and leaves the origin open.

Ałayan derives from *րգատ (*rgat), from *գրատ (*grat), from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds. This etymology is considered the most probable one by Martirosyan, who remarks that we may be dealing with a Mediterranean-European substrate word.

արգատ • (argat)

1. superfluous branches cut off from a vine and used for kindling
   • 16–17th centuries, Eremia Mełrecʿi or Sargis Evdokiacʿi, Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ [Armenian Dictionary] 233:

     Ուռ · ճիղ, կամ արգատ։

     Uṙ · čił, kam argat.

• Armenian: արգատ (argat)

• Eremia Mełrecʿi (1698), “ուռ”, in Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ [Armenian Dictionary] (in Armenian), Livorno: tpagr. Sargis Evdokiacʿu Sahetʿču, page 258
• Amalyan, H. M., editor (1975) Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 261
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʿi (1884), “sarment”, in Baṙagirkʿ i gałłierēn lezuē i hayerēn [Dictionary from the French Language into Armenian], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian Press, page 1118
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “արգատ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Ałayan, Ēduard (1974) Baṙakʿnnakan ew stugabanakan hetazotutʿyunner [Lexicological and Etymological Studies] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 30–31
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), “argat”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 132