արեգ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian արեգ (areg).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑˈɾeɡ/, [ɑɾéɡ]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑˈɾek/, [ɑɾékʰ]

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արեգ • (areg)

1. (rare, poetic) the sun

   Synonyms: արև (arew), արեգակ (aregak)

2. (historical, sometimes capitalized) the eighth month of the Armenian calendar

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A prehistoric genitive of արև (arew), going back to Proto-Armenian *areg-i-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rewyós, the genitive of *h₂réw-is (“sun, sunshine”) (whence the nominative արև (arew)), from *h₂rew-.

արեգ • (areg)

1. solar, sun's

   Արեգ քաղաք ― Areg kʻałakʻ ― city of the Sun, Heliopolis

2. eastern

   ի յարեգ կուսէ ― i yareg kusē ― from the eastern side

   արեգ դուռն ― areg duṙn ― the eastern gate

Has the combining forms արեգ- (areg-) and արեգ-ն-ա- (areg-n-a-).

արեգ • (areg)

2. the eighth month of the Armenian calendar

• → Armenian: արեգ (areg) (learned)
• →? Old Georgian: იგრიკაჲ (igriḳay)
  • Georgian: იგრიკა (igriḳa)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “արեգ”, 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) “արեգ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “*areg-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 135
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 109–110