աղ

Inherited from Old Armenian աղ (ał).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑʁ/, [ɑʁ]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑʁ/, [ɑʁ]

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աղ • (aġ)

1. salt
2. (figuratively) gist, essence (Can we add an example for this sense?)

From Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-. See also աղտ (ałt).

աղ • (ał)

1. salt

   աղ ուխտի, ուխտ աղի, աղ կնքեալ ― ał uxti, uxt ałi, ał knkʻeal ― sign of true friendship

   աղ եւ հաց ― ał ew hacʻ ― commensality, love

   աղ առնուլ, աղ եւ հաց ուտել ― ał aṙnul, ał ew hacʻ utel ― to eat in company, to be social, to be convivial

   • 5th century, Agatʻangełos, Patmutʻiwn Hayocʻ [History of the Armenians] 106:^[1]

     Ես ետ հրաման բերել աղ եւ բորակ եւ բարկ քացախ, եւ ընկենուլ զնա յորսայս, եւ դնել փող եղեգան ի քիթս նորա, եւ արկանել զայն ընդ քիթս նորա։

     Es et hraman berel ał ew borak ew bark kʻacʻax, ew ənkenul zna yorsays, ew dnel pʻoł ełegan i kʻitʻs nora, ew arkanel zayn ənd kʻitʻs nora.

     • Translation by R. W. Thomson

       And he ordered salt and borax and rough vinegar to be brought, and for him to be turned on his back, his head to be placed in a carpenter's vice, and a reed tube to be put in his nose, and this liquid to be poured down his nose.

• Armenian: աղ (aġ)

• Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 34
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “աղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “աղ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Fortson, Benjamin W. (2010) Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, second edition, Oxford: Blackwell, pages 387–388
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “aɫ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 24
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “աղ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy