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լեառնակ
լեառնակ
Old Armenian
Alternative forms
- լեառնական (leaṙnakan) (textual variant)
Noun
լեառնակ • (leaṙnak)
- larnax
- Varkʿ srbocʿ harancʾ [Paterica] Vasn poṙnkutʿean
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[…] եւ մտեալ անկցիս ՚ի վերայ լեառնակի հարցն եւ ասա […]
- […] and having entered, you shall fall on the larnax of the fathers and say...
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[…] եւ մտեալ անկցիս ՚ի վերայ լեառնակի հարցն եւ ասա […]
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Declension
i-a-type or i-type
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | լեառնակ (leaṙnak) | լեառնակք (leaṙnakkʿ) | |
| genitive | լեառնակի (leaṙnaki) | ? (?) | |
| dative | լեառնակի (leaṙnaki) | ? (?) | |
| accusative | լեառնակ (leaṙnak) | լեառնակս (leaṙnaks) | |
| ablative | լեառնակէ (leaṙnakē) | ? (?) | |
| instrumental | ? (?) | ? (?) | |
| locative | լեառնակի (leaṙnaki) | լեառնակս (leaṙnaks) | |
| the instrumental singular and the genitive/dative/instrumental plural are not attested, which does not allow determining whether the word followed an i-type or an i-a-type declension | |||
Usage notes
The word is not included in the standard dictionaries of Old Armenian. It is attested only once in the Armenian Paterica and was brought to light in 1944 by the Georgian Armenologist Ilia Abuladze.
References
- Abulaje, Ilia (1944), “Hin hayerenum gorcacvac mi nor baṙ [A New Word Used in Old Armenian]”, in Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR: Social Sciences (in Armenian), volume 1–2, pages 107–108
- Ačaṙyan, Hračʿya (1944), “Haykakankʿ A [Armeniaca I]”, in Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR: Social Sciences (in Armenian), volume 5, page 25
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “Haykakankʿ (Armeniaca)”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 625