բուզաղթն

Old Armenian

Alternative forms
  • բազոխտ (bazoxt)
  • բազուխթ (bazuxtʿ)
  • բազուիթ (bazuitʿ) (misspelling)

Etymology

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

Noun

բուզաղթն • (buzałtʿn)

  1. darkness

References
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 192
  • Eremia Mełrecʿi (1698), “բուզաղթն”, in Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ [Armenian Dictionary] (in Armenian), Livorno: tpagr. Sargis Evdokiacʿu Sahetʿču
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “բուզաղթն”, 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
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