մայրի

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /mɑjˈɾi/, [mɑjɾí]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /mɑjˈɾi/, [mɑjɾí]
• Hyphenation: մայ‧րի

From Old Armenian մայրի (mayri).

մայրի • (mayri)

1. (archaic) woods, forest

From մայր (mayr, “cedar”) +‎ -ի (-i, “botanical suffix”).

մայրի • (mayri)

1. cedar

• “մայրի”, in Žamanakakicʻ hayocʻ lezvi bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980

• մորի (mori)

From Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ter-yeh₂-, a derivative of *méh₂tēr (“mother”), in the sense of “source”. Cognate with Latin materia and Old Armenian մայր (mayr, “cedar”). The sense of “den, lair” developed from the sense “woods as dwelling-place for beasts”.

մայրի • (mayri)

1. woods, forest, thicket
2. den, lair

• Armenian: մայրի (mayri), միրհավ (mirhav)
• Middle Armenian, մէրի (mēri)
  • Armenian: մերի (meri)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մայրի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մայրի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մայրի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 449