User talk:Vahagn Petrosyan/Archive 10

ձիաբոռ
Hello Vahagn! May I wish you to make the above blue so as to finish up the following instances of a likely Eurasian Wanderwort? KYPark (talk) 05:44, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ko: 말벌 (malbeol)
 * zh: 馬蜂 (mǎfēng)
 * mn: морин зөгий (morin zögij)
 * hy: ձիաբոռ (jiaboṙ)
 * hu: lódarázs (lódarázs)
 * yi: פֿערדבין (ferdbin)
 * Not you again and your crazy theories. --Vahag (talk) 16:49, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot, anyway. Good money drives out bad, in this case. KYPark (talk) 03:17, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Proto-Germanic loanwords in Iranian
We know there were certainly contacts between Proto-Germanic and Iranian peoples, Germanicists freely talk about Proto-Germanic loanwords from Iranian in Wiktionary, like this one: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/paþaz (Of course this word is clearly from a western Iranian language, compare Old Persian paθi but Ossetian fændag) but it seems you don't allow that Iranologists publish their works on this subject here, what is the reason? Mojshahmiri (talk) 18:45, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * This is a dictionary. We provide etymologies (and reconstruction entries as an extension of those) based on reliable sources where possible- we don't "publish" anyone's "works" here. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:11, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't see this rule in Terms of Use, if it really exists then you should remove more than 90 percent of etymologies of Persian words, will you do it? I can list them for you. -Mojshahmiri (talk) 07:08, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * you claim Proto-Germanic borrowing for Modern Persian and Middle Persian words. That is impossible chronologically and geographically. The situation is different for borrowings into Proto-Germanic from Eastern-Iranian-speaking nomads of the steppe. --Vahag (talk) 20:18, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * As I mentioned above most of Iranian borrowings into Proto-Germanic are from actually western Iranian languages, like Persian, not Eastern Iranian languages, like Scytho-Sarmatian, Modern/Middle Persian is a continuation of Old Persian. It is certainly possible both chronologically and geographically, my master's degree thesis was about this historical fact: http://dlib.ical.ir/site/catalogue/639964 -Mojshahmiri (talk) 07:08, 6 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Mojshahmiri, seeing how you conduct yourself here, and in online forums, I think it's for the best that you choose a different community from Wiktionary. --Victar (talk) 05:19, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * What do you mean? Yes, I'm the founder and admin of one of the largest history communities on the web (AllEmpires.com) with more than 5,000 members (including 800 expert historians), just search for "history forum" in google to find the place of my website, AllEmpries.com has been used as reference in thousands wiki pages, like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataphract#cite_note-30 Is it you reason that I should leave wiki? -Mojshahmiri (talk) 07:08, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I was referring to your unbecoming conduct in that forum, which mirrors what you have shown here on Wiktionary, but whilst on the topic of said forum, I find it full of nutbag conspiracy theorists and racial bigotry. No one should be citing that site for anything. --Victar (talk) 14:20, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Your words are familiar to me, aren't you one of members who were banned by me in AllEmpires forum? Do you want to avenge here?! -Mojshahmiri (talk) 16:32, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Haha, no, but it sounds like whoever that is, we would get along just fine. --Victar (talk) 16:20, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

կաղամախի Etymology
Congratulations on your diligent efforts to run the etymology to ground. I am not at all surprised that there might be disagreement as to species of Populus. I was surprised that Platanus was also in the running. The bark and leaf (two of the most readily observed characteristics) are very different in Platanus and Populus. It is hard to see how both types of trees could ever have been covered by they same term, unless the term was analogous to tree. DCDuring (talk) 19:00, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Both are riparian trees. In my experience it's not uncommon for borrowed terms to be applied to different trees at different times, and don't forget that there are multiple translations involved in the various sources as they come to us. As an illustration of what can happen: in the following, you'll notice that the correspondence between the species in the different languages is rather loose. translates both  (I think) and . ( is translated in Isaiah 60:13 as, and  in Genesis 30:37 as  (from ). This kind of confusion is common in translations from the Hebrew scriptures because of the lack of contemporary sources and the centuries (perhaps millenia) between texts and their translations. Also, people were focusing on religious rather than botanical matters.

Chuck Entz (talk) 22:30, 11 August 2018 (UTC)


 * For see also, and the chapter for the family; for Platanaceae.
 * I have now created the Arabic word for the poplar . To the best I know nobody has hereunto recognized it as borrowed from Aramaic. Fay Freak (talk) 02:54, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
 * BTW the կաղամախի page and particularly with the Hebrew here shows again how the quotation templates need support for translated sources of quoted translations as laid out in Talk:kalsarikänni. We are in the fourth row with English already: Hebrew → Greek → Armenian → English. Fay Freak (talk) 03:19, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comments, guys. I think in this case the whiteness of the bark and/or leaves is what unites the various trees.
 * should be expanded to handle several rows of translation. It should also have the ability to show the edition from which the text is quoted and should allow links to websites other than Wikisource. --Vahag (talk) 20:04, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Khatun خاتون

 * خاتون
 * khatun

Both etymologies look wrong and made-up. Khatun itself seems a Sogdian word. So the Persian equivalent is a direct loanword from Sogdian not Turkish. Plus the Turkish one hatun is a Sogdian loanword too. --94.177.77.215 05:41, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't want to deal with this. Please raise the issue at WT:ES. --Vahag (talk) 11:13, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

What do you think?
Please look through Special:Contributions/94.109.8.199/16 and tell me what you think. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:02, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
 * , his edits are mostly bullshit, not to mention poorly formatted. I would revert all of them, even if some bits of information could have been salvaged. --Vahag (talk) 10:21, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * That's what I figured, but I wasn't sure enough to block him. That was Nemzag. I wanted to give him a chance, since he seemed to be trying very hard to tone down his eccentricities. I didn't want to let him know I recognized him until I was ready to block him because then he would stop trying. Now I've got some cleanup to do ... Chuck Entz (talk) 12:25, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Sadly, people don't change. --Vahag (talk) 14:00, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Hey Vahagn, I've been putting together this PIE entry, and I've seen Old Armenian sometimes cited as been related. Is there any credence to this, or is it just a superficial coincidence? --Victar (talk) 16:05, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
 * , the appurtenance has been proposed many times, but I don't see how it can be explained phonologically. I added another reflex, which is phonologically sound. --Vahag (talk) 10:44, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Vahagn. I've been working on a new theory of an s-mobile root, which would unify it with the PII, Celtic and Hittite words for "harvest, crop". I'm surprised no one has suggested it before. --Victar (talk) 21:08, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks interesting, but I am not competent enough to comment on your theory. --Vahag (talk) 10:53, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, I curious if it gives some more wiggle room for . --Victar (talk) 15:26, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
 * To the best of my knowledge, none of the derived forms listed in can explain . --Vahag (talk) 10:34, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Vahagn, are you aware of any other Armenian words rooted in PIE *sHV-? --Victar (talk) 11:43, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Victar, perhaps . --Vahag (talk) 12:29, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Template:R:lv:LEV
Could you please explain, why you reverted my edit? Soshial (talk) 08:25, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Were you aware that when you added all that stuff to the template, including the rfv-etymology and the category that goes with it, you were also adding it to the upwards of 2,000 entries that transclude it? Do you realize how silly it is to have warnings addressed to editors appear in the References section for dictionary users to read? Have you ever seen a footnote in a dictionary saying "don't use this footnote?" Chuck Entz (talk) 08:59, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
 * rfv-etymology should be used for questioning specific etymologies. --Vahag (talk) 10:55, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
 * What should we do to indicate that this etymologycal dictionary is not 100% trustable, Chuck Entz? Here's the proof. Soshial (talk) 10:42, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * What does Derksen's dictionary's review have to do with Karulis? --Vahag (talk) 11:27, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * No dictionary is 100% trustable, and even those that are less trustable can be used. We aren’t supposed to follow dictionaries blindly, no warning is needed in the template or its documentation. Fay Freak (talk) 14:14, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Got it. Can we at least write this warning only in the template (noinclude)? — soshial 18:23, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * No. You can discuss the unreliability in the Discussion tab of Template:R:lv:LEV. By the way, you still have not explained why Karulis is unreliable. --Vahag (talk) 18:26, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Citing the article of Rick Derksen:
 * Karulis’ Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca (1992) is in many respects the work of an amateur and hardly meets normal scholarly standards. It does, however, supply some references, mostly to Eastern European sources that are likely to pass unnoticed to Western scholars. A good etymological dictionary of Latvian is probably the main desideratum of Baltic etymology today.
 * Would be nice to get more opinions on the topic. I seriously think that we should put disclaimer at least in the template. — soshial 19:41, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Please use Template_talk:R:lv:LEV for this information. No one is checking my talk page for Latvian stuff. --Vahag (talk) 06:43, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

արաց
The Armenian calendar has twelve 30-day months. It begins on Navasard 1 which corresponds to August 11. This means that the sixth month would be sometime around January, not six days after the New Year. The month of Arats begins on January 8 of every year and ends 30 days afterward, on February 6. Arzashkun (talk) 02:07, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
 * , the Armenian calendar was moving. See here, page 25, second paragraph and page 29, first paragraph. What you say is true for the classical period. I will update the entry to show this. --Vahag (talk) 08:30, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

շերեփուկ
Do you really think that շերեփուկ 'tadpole' is etymologically connected to շերեփ 'ladle' and not to *šerepʿ from IE root *serp- 'to creep' (here)? Edward Divanyan (talk) 08:48, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
 * , it is obviously from, because of the tadpole's shape. PIE *serp- would yield Armenian or the like. --Vahag (talk) 15:14, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

reverting cited edits
Dear Vahagn, I was wondering if you'd mind explaining why you have reverted my sourced edits? MS   会話  13:32, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Because your source is either wrong or you misrepresent it. 🇨🇬 cannot give 🇨🇬. The Turkic origin of the latter is well-known and universally accepted. --Vahag (talk) 13:49, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Dear Vahagn, on what grounds have you implied this universal acceptance? How do you say it while Proto-Turkic:kāŕ is itself suggested to be an Indo-european borrowing (Take a look at the wiktionary page)? How do you say my source is wrong? please ask another persophone to verify the source and the author (Persian WP page:wikipedia:fa:منوچهر آریان‌پور کاشانی). I repeat the source: "Manouchehr Aryanpour Kashani, فرهنگ واژه‌های هندواروپایی زبان فارسی (The Indo-European roots of the Persian language), page 394". Looking forward to your reply, MS    会話  14:47, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * On the basis of the standard references listed at 🇨🇬. Even if the Turkic word is itself an Indo-European borrowing, that does not change the immediate Turkic origin of 🇨🇬. --Vahag (talk) 15:25, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Please take a look at the source which clearly states that the origin of is PIE *ǵʰans or ask another person with Persian knowledge to verify. I won't edit for a week or so, but will revert your edits on that page afterwards.  MS    会話  15:39, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * ĵʰ gives /z/ and /ns/ does not give /z/. Nothing fits the supposed Iranian or Indo-Iranian origin. No need to check sources when one knows a priori. Those sources troll you only and you shoot yourself in the leg by using them. Is it too inconvenient to use common sense? Fay Freak (talk) 15:46, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Dear Freak, really wondering how you say this while हंस (haṃsá) is also derived from the same root? Unfortunately, common sense would often be misleading in some cases. Besides, I said *ǵʰans not ĵʰansás. This source is clearly reliable, authored by a well-known, well-reputed linguist. All I want is that you ask a person with Persian knowledge to take a look at it. MS    会話  16:03, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Different notation, same result. It would still be a voiced alveolar fricative and not a voiced velar or uvular fricative. And giving excuses to dismiss your responsibility for own reasonable handling of source material is tawdry. That he is a reliable, a well-known, well-reputed linguist, is what you say. I can say the same about Theo Vennemann, and it would be true because he does not produce fakes as far as I know, but it does not mean I need to believe his derivations. And if something were to be spread by the Iranian Minister of Propaganda it would also be well-reputed, because the state ordained the reputation. Theologians are also well-reputed even when you know you shouldn’t take over their explanations. Fay Freak (talk) 16:23, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * This is clearly the funniest case I have ever come across in any of sister projects. I got a citable source in my hand but can't use it because a dilettante who sees no difference between "g" and "j" and believes "ĵʰ gives /z/ and /ns/" only, dismisses works of true academics, not just the one I mentioned, but even others who suggest the proto-Turkic term is also a derivative of the PIE root. Besides, the pronunciation of "غ" is not the same in Persian and Arabic. It's not fricative at all, it's a stop (⟨q⟩,⟨G⟩). Anyways, we made Vahagn's talk page messy enough, and this is apparently going nowhere. I won't edit for some days, but will revert edits on that page afterwards. MS    会話  08:59, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Indeed funny that you promote reconstructions but don’t even know how Classical Persian was pronounced. In the words of Wikipedia’s article just on : ”In Classical Persian, the uvular consonants and ‬ denoted the original Arabic phonemes, the fricative [ɣ] and the plosive [q], respectively.” Where it is continued about how this pronunciation has been preserved in Dari and Tajik. This case only shows that you should not deal with any reconstructions as you even fail to know the pronunciation of Persian itself. Fay Freak (talk) 10:23, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Who said I didn't know how classical Persian was pronounced? I just though you meant modern Persian in your previous comment, where غ and ق have the same pronunciation. However, what are we pursuing by these pronunciation exactly? Stop it here, dear classical Persian expert. MS    会話  10:55, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * If some term in Persian comes from Proto-Iranian, it very likely did not skip Classical Persian to enter modern Persian. What they are pursuing is a logical path from Proto-Iranian to Classical Persian to modern Persian, which they are not finding based on the construction you gave. There is the possibility that the academics you are talking about made a mistake. —  [ זכריה קהת ] Zack. — 11:33, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

🇨🇬 cannot be regularly derived from PIE, irrespective of what your source says. If you want to overturn the scholarly consensus on Turkic derivation of 🇨🇬 (for example, as reflected in the standard work of Doerfer), you have to start a discussion at WT:ES and convince others. --Vahag (talk) 11:43, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

WT:RE:hy
Привет, Вааг. Я опять добавил кучу новых запросов, которые я добавляю как переводы с английского на армянский, пока я о них помню. Я стараюсь выбирать наиболее существенные, на мой взгляд, слова. Похоже ты очень занят в последнее время, и наверное такой длинный список тебя только вгоняет в депрессию :) Скажи, если ты хочешь, чтоб я притормозил с новыми запросами. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 04:24, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Привет, Анатолий. Я вернулся в Армению. Теперь у меня больше времени для словаря. Смело добавляй запросы! --Vahag (talk) 10:57, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Спасибо. С возвращением! —Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 20:18, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Вааг, похоже качественных русско- или англо-армянских словарей не существует в природе. Так что, когда закончишь праздновать с коньяком, возвращайся к словарю :) --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 23:02, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Действительно, не существует. Наш словарь будет лучшим в мире :) --Vahag (talk) 11:14, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Western Armenian forms
Hi! I just have a quick thing to say. I think that there should be some inflection tables made for Western Armenian grammar, and for {\{hy-pron}} to be enabled for Standard Western Armenian too. I don't know how familiar you are with it, but there are enough inflectional differences between EA and WA (like EA արել եմ vs WA արած եմ, կ- vs պիտի, -ում vs կը, -ներ-ի vs -ներ-ու, խոսել vs խօսիլ (that's the big one), etc.) that Wiktionary honestly isn't that helpful for Western. I understand if it would be too much work to do, and I'll admit now that I won't be very helpful (արեւելահայ եմ, ոչ արեւմտահայերեն չգիտեմ), but it would be really nice if it could happen. 07:24 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi! I too am a speaker of Eastern Armenian. Covering Western Armenian is my long-term goal, but I can't do it without a dedicated and competent native speaker to guide me through creating a pronunciation template and inflection tables. I have found that the textbook descriptions of the language are not reliable. --Vahag (talk) 12:24, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The pronunciation of WA isn't that difficult, I know a speaker, and he taught me how to pronounce it. As for the grammar, that's my main reason for asking, but I'll go to church and see if anyone there knows of any good resources. 14:13 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but Wiktionary has higher standards. Your friends' teachings aren't sufficient. Also, please refrain from calling the reformed orthography 'communist orthography' and from making other politically charged comments in the mainspace. --Vahag (talk) 16:54, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Meaning of *bannaną
Hi. Back in 2009 you added to the etymology of ban, tracing it to Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bannaną, and you gave the meaning of that as "forbid, curse". If you're sure about that meaning, can you please add it to Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bannaną? That gives several meanings, but not "to forbid, curse". Thanks. Eric Kvaalen (talk) 09:36, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
 * that was very long ago. I do not remember what sources I used. I am not sure about the meaning. --Vahag (talk) 10:50, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

bizoz
Hi Vahag, do you have something like in (Old) Armenian, or somthing ?--Calak (talk) 21:31, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
 * , I do not know a similar word, but why are you glossing it as ? Kurdoev translates as "moth". Cabolov compares it to . If the meaning "restless" is correct, compare the same semantic development in . --Vahag (talk) 07:32, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
 * No, It just means "restless" in Central Kurdish (and has only bizoz form). Well you are righ about semantic shift. We have also similar compound, (from, it is also an onomatopoeic word).--Calak (talk) 08:45, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Վրան
Hello Vahagn, I would like to inquire why did you revert my edits on the word վրան? BoghosBoghossian (talk) 15:02, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
 * , your etymology was patently incorrect. The Iranian origin is impeccable and universally accepted. Note the references I have now added to . Ačaṙyan and your 1925 source could not solve the etymology correctly, because the Parthian form was not known back then. --Vahag (talk) 15:29, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Help needed
Hi Vahak, jan. Would you be interested in creating an Armenian course on Duolingo?

Also, do you know the name of the old Armenian dragon slayer, equivalent to Beowulf, prior to the name Vahagn being introduced via Parthian? If I remember correctly, the name was of Luwian origin. Reventi (talk) 07:13, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, . I would not be interested in contributing to Duolingo. I am busy. Also, I never liked that program.
 * As far as I know, the Armenian name of the native deity that was syncretized with Zoroastrian Verethragna to create Vahagn has been lost. You may be thinking of, whose name is sometimes connected with Luwian . See here, footnote 3 for references. --Vahag (talk) 10:36, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

The name was շանթ Reventi (talk) 19:34, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

աղուէս
Why would you revert the edit on աղուէս, when the word is related ἀλώπηξ? If the PIE word *h₂lōpeh₂s were to be reconstructed it would render *ałwes, thus cementing the relationship between the Armenian word and its potential PIE word. In addition, I added the word 'potentially' in the beginning of the sentence just to leave the etymology of աղուէս open to being a wanderword. BoghosBoghossian (talk) 11:04, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * , I reverted you because PIR *h₂lōpeh₂s would not yield . The requires PIE *ḱ. --Vahag (talk) 18:32, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Origin of պիտի
Hello Vahagn,

Seeing that you are actively editing and contributing to the Armenian words in Wiktionary, I would like to address a certain eccentricity that I have encountered with the word պիտի (piti). The page on պէտ (pēt) indicates that the noun is of Iranian origin, while does no reference to the origin of պիտի as a participle. Should I assume that both the noun and the participle are of Iranian origin? However, on the page of պիտի it is included that տի is a contraction of պիտի, but the origin of տի is of PIE origin, would this indicate that the noun is of Iranian origin while the participle is of PIE origin? In addition, what makes me doubt the proposition that both the noun and the participle are of variant origins, is the fact that the definition of the contraction տի refers to "age, years, time of life", which puts a deviation between the sense of the contraction and its alternative form (պիտի) which makes me doubt their common origin.
 * is from Old Armenian, a conjugated form of the verb , from the noun , which is of Iranian origin. See Ačaṙyan for more, from page 132. 🇨🇬 is a homonym of the contracted and has nothing to do with . --Vahag (talk) 11:08, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

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https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3A%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%90%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%A8%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98&type=revision&diff=51372219&oldid=51371828

What can you tell me about your comment?hmm...--ჯეო/მიქაელ (talk) 16:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC) If you think Churchkhela is armenian, bravo! Khachapuri is georgian! Churchkhela is georgian! If you like your opinion I say nothing, but why are yout thief? You have culture and why you want to become thief of our culture? How is Georgia your land stoled by us?! Do you know something about civilization of Colchis? You are troll, I think 2 yers old knows history and geography better, than you! Your country stoled our territory, Lore is Georgia, god knows it, god can see everything! If you are atheist that's not my problem, good bye then!--ჯეო/მიქაელ (talk) 16:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
 * No, you stoled khachapuri from us! I proved it, but Zionist lobby reverted my provings! --Vahag (talk) 17:41, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
 * OK I am not talking to thiefs, killers and etc. bye!--ჯეო/მიქაელ (talk) 07:38, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

كابین
You seem to have used to the wrong letter for "k" (maybe also for "y"). I suppose you used the Arabic letters, which don't necessarily look different in all positions, but put the word in a wrong position in lists. It should be moved to. Thank you. 90.186.72.21 22:15, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Moved. Only the first letter was incorrect -> Arabic ك to Persian ک. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 23:36, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

PIE *s> Arm. h
It is known that PIE *s could render in Armenian h and this sound shift is also seen in Iranian (Mallory, J. P., Douglas Q. Adams. Oxford UP, 2006). As well as *sm̥- (<*sem) renders an Armenian հան in հանգչիմ while also PIE *sem- renders the Iranian համ- and հան-. Based on these suppositions, if the sound shift *s> Arm. h is accepted shouldn't the համ- and հան- be derived from Armenian rather than Iranian? and if not, why should there be an etymological difference between the հան- in հանգչիմ and the հան- in հանուր if the sound change is the same and the PIE root is *sem- in both cases?

(I am asking here because I did not find any other platform that would answer my questions, I am asking these questions out of curiosity and the hope of learning more. I wish that the responses to my questions would be respectful and contain constructive criticism.)
 * , the contamination of Iranian /  with native prefixes as in  and  is recognized. See the reference I just added to . See HAB III, 19a on why the Iranian origin is preferable. I do not know which prefix  contains. --Vahag (talk) 11:18, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

էշ
If PIE *ḱ>Arm. s, how does *h₁éḱwos change to էշ, with *ḱ>š? BoghosBoghossian (talk) 16:09, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * When followed by a *-w-, PIE *ḱ yield š, as in and . See Martirosyan 2010, page 718 with extensive references. --Vahag (talk) 16:40, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Old Armenian հրա- (hra-)
Was Old Armenian productive? If not, it shouldn't be on PIr. . -- 20:54, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * , it wasn't productive. The PIr. page is a convenient place to dump all the related terms. For I have used, even though it is very obscure. For  I have created a separate entry because it is (supposedly) found in a few native compounds. Where would  words go? --Vahag (talk) 14:53, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * , but perhaps we need separate sections for mere reflexes. Fay Freak (talk) 14:55, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Where they go, I don't know (probably nowhere), but regardless, there is not the place. Adding it there is like adding Punjabi to Greek  because of  or Uyghur  to Latin  because of . --  15:32, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * That's a silly comparison. Iranian should thank on its knees for every piece of evidence Old Armenian supplies. To quote Iranica: "But the study of the Armenian loans from Iranian is of vital importance for solving problems of Old, Middle, and New Iranian linguistics, as well. 1. They help determine the exact phonetic shape of the (Middle) Iranian words, which in the Iranian texts is often obscured by the consonantal writing systems. The Arm. alphabet, however, is fully vocalized, though it does not show the original vowel quantity. 2. They enable us to establish the exact meaning of the Ir. words. 3. They shed light on the phonetic developments that took place in the Ir. languages and thus aid in reconstructing linguistic stages not known or not sufficiently known from the Ir. evidence itself. 4. They provide evidence relating to Ir., and especially Mid. Ir. dialectological problems. Finally, the Arm. language is also an important source for Ir. lexicology and lexicography as it contains many words, some of which survive right down to the present day, not attested in the Ir. languages themselves...".
 * Perhaps in this particular case the evidence is not that important. It points to Northwest Iranian fra-, which is already known from Iranian itself. --Vahag (talk) 17:58, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Remind me to send a thank you card to Old Armenian, but still, no. -- 18:07, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * “Productive” is a kinda fictitious concept. There are those suffixes that are transferred to other words by analogy or contamination but are “not really productive”, For example the Turkic -lVk (as in ) appears in Serbo-Croatian as -лук consistently even though the vowel varies in Turkish according to the vowel before, and in Bulgarian as -лък. It can be added for fun and slang purposes, so we have an entry, but it is not normal as a suffix. Productive when only occasional? Productive when relying on analogy? Productive when only contaminating? And this state of things we only know because Serbo-Croatian is a current language with accessible large corpora: maybe we do not have that much of a grip of Old Armenian to know what was productive or what is just there – do the reflexes become less interesting because of it?
 * The general idea is to add only content that is interesting for which reason soever, and Vahagn has shewn you his reasons. Your Punjabi and Uyghur examples are convenient strawmen. As uncertainty about productivity grows the farther into the past we look, the more we value every material. Your concern is more about bad imitation, that people lack the common sense not to add extremely irrelevant content, wanting to stop them from doing so by a clear reference line. Well, we can of course ignore the treatment of these descendants for this reason, for there are, all the coming years, hundreds of other interesting things Vahagn can also add and people should add and which do not bear the danger to be wrongly imitated. Fay Freak (talk) 23:52, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quintessential Palaestrator verborum rant, as always, but you're wrong,, and it illustrates your complete lack of knowledge on the subject. All the examples given by Vahagn are whole borrowing into Old Armenian and show no signs whatsoever of the productive use of as a prefix, be it "fun", "slang", or otherwise. If Vahagn wishes to contend that with any evidence, I'm all ears, but barring that, my Punjabi and Uyghur comparisons are apt. Vahagn isn't even trying to dispute that though -- his counterpoint is that is OArm can sheds light on vowel quality of prefixes, but at best, they should be pronunciation footnotes on the Parthian and Middle Persian entries, and don't belong in the descendants section. --  07:25, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

գիտեմ
The formulation “From the root *գէտ- (*gēt-, “to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde.” is misleading since the final *-e of the PIE 3sg perfect does not lead to *գէտ-. The Old Armenian root reflects the PIE root shape of the perfect form alone. Fortecis (talk) 19:27, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

If the reason is to be consistent with the PIE entry, “from the root of *wóyd-e” would probably be a suitable compromise although there is no special reason to cite this PIE verb by its 3sg form. Fortecis (talk) 19:37, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
 * we link to lemmas. For PIE we have chosen 3rd person singular indicative as the lemma. --Vahag (talk) 07:50, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Liking to lemmas is ok, but there are still ways to avoid inaccurate formulations. The root գէտ- as such does not go back to the cited 3sg form. This is a matter of linguistic accuracy and not a technical choice.
 * you don't understand. It is a dictionary convention to say lemma A derives from lemma B, even if the cited forms do not come from each other. So, is derived from, even though the precise reflex of the latter is . --Vahag (talk) 09:43, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
 * And it is not inaccurate thus. If we write we mean “բերէ and its whole paradigm”, if we write  then we mean  “also its oblique stem ”. This what you have to understand as this is what dictionaries do. Fay Freak (talk) 10:53, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Sure, derivation on the level of lexical items is fine. What bothers me is when we get to the morphological level “From the ROOT *գէտ-...” and then back to the lexical level “from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde.” It gives the impression that we are still on the morphological level as we derive *gēt- from *woyde. Within the descriptive model that you describe it should have been “From the VERB *gēt-“ (or however else one would like to represent this Proto-Armenian lexical item, e.g. *gētet).
 * This is a very minor issue, but I made the change so you can move on. --Vahag (talk) 16:07, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot! I very much appreciate it.

and
Any thoughts on the etymology of ? -- 06:55, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
 * The Armenian is certainly borrowed from Turkish. I think the ultimate origin is indeed Iranian, from the same source as . --Vahag (talk) 08:05, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Vahagn, much appreciated. In any of your sources, so you have an etymology for 🇨🇬? -- 17:22, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
 * It's a Turkic borrowing. --Vahag (talk) 19:09, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Source? Cognates? Nevermind, found them. Thanks again. -- 19:43, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Երեւան/Էրեբունի
I've undone your rollbacks on the two pages above and added references for the content you removed. NativeNames (talk) 20:42, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , you are out of your depth here. Don't copy Wikipedia's amateurish content to Wiktionary. The etymology of and its relationship with  is complicated․ Armen Petrosyan records tens of attempts at etymology. --Vahag (talk) 08:24, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Rollbacks
Why do you keep deleting my edits?
 * Why do you keep adding translations in dozens of languages you obviously don't know? Chuck Entz (talk) 05:31, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Because I don't trust your translations. In case of Armenian, one of the two translations was wrong. --Vahag (talk) 15:02, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

ցուրտ
Can come from ? Reventi (talk) 19:39, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Obviously not from that form. If from that root, then from *(s)ḱh₁ur-do-. --Vahag (talk) 08:34, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

PIE wodr>Armenian get (գետ)
To my understanding, the Armenian word for "river" (գետ, get) derives from the proto-Indo-European word "wed(r)" (water). There is a reconstructed intermediary form in Proto-Armenian "ued" (PIE w>PArm u>ModArm g). This word "ued" is officially unattested, but may be attested in Urartian-era sources. The words "ued" and "get" should be included on the page for water. Sorry if the formatting was incorrect.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wódr̥

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/գետ#Old_Armenian

--Preservedmoose (talk) 17:54, 23 January 2020 (UTC)


 * there is no *wed(r). There is, which cannot give . The Armenian is from a different derivative of the root , which you would know if you looked at . --Vahag (talk) 19:03, 23 January 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm sure that you got my point. It was on the wódr̥ page. Chill out.--Preservedmoose (talk) 19:25, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Bug report: The axm quotation alias
ԱԱՕԲ you removed, but it is still used on three pages. Fay Freak (talk)
 * Thanks, I fixed them. --Vahag (talk) 09:13, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

The Church of Almighty God in Armenian
How would you translate the following terms used by The Church of Almighty God (or 全能神教會/Quánnéng Shén Jiàohuì in the original Chinese) into Armenian?


 * 全能神教會 (Quánnéng Shén Jiàohuì) ― The Church of Almighty God


 * 全能神 (Quánnéng Shén) ― Almighty God


 * 話在肉身顯現 (Huà zài ròushēn xiǎnxiàn) ― The Word Appears in the Flesh


 * 律法時代 (Lǜfǎ Shídài) ― The Age of Law


 * 恩典時代 (Ēndiǎn Shídài) ― The Age of Grace


 * 國度時代 (Guódù Shídài) ― The Age of Kingdom


 * 話語時代 (Huàyǔ Shídài) ― The Age of Word


 * 千年國度時代 (Qiānnián Guódù Shídài) ― The Age of Millennial Kingdom


 * 大紅龍 (Dà Hóng Lóng) ― The Great Red Dragon

Thanks for reading. --Apisite (talk) 13:17, 13 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Վտանգավոր չինական աղանդ,
 * Չղջիկները համով են,
 * Նիկոլ վարչապետ,
 * Նիկոլ թագավոր,
 * Նիկոլ կայսր,
 * Նիկոլ ֆյուրեր,
 * Նիկոլ տիրակալ,
 * Նիկոլ ազիկների սարսափ,
 * Հուսանք Չինաստանում Գուգլ թրանսլեյթն արգելափակված է։


 * --Vahag (talk) 14:25, 13 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I didn't ask for what you think of the Christian new religious movement. Besides, there are two books, one about those who have been punished for resisting Almighty God and another about those who regretted it and turned to Almighty God consequently, among other things. --Apisite (talk) 14:58, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Բակուր Bakur
Hi Vahag, so long.

You had added to the entry  and I wonder if your sources contain any etymological information on about the word (couldn't find it in Acharyan's work), which is supposedly from Middle Iranian for "son of god" (see, I'm working on this entry right now). --Z 15:14, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, Z.
 * I added what I know to, and . I think the descendants you listed under  rather belong to . The Armenian B- instead of P- is unclear to me. Armenian sources conflate the βaγpuhr and Pakur to explain it. --Vahag (talk) 18:19, 19 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Yes, that's right, indeed, one source derives it from Middle Iranian Pakur, I just couldn't find the word so I temporarily listed them there. --Z 09:55, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

թեշի
Hi, I thought 🇨🇬 (also 🇨🇬, apparently means "porcupine") looks relevant to the sense "spindle" at first sight. I couldn't do much research into this right now and things at թեշի look complicated. --Z 10:42, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't think it is related. The semantics are too far. It rather belongs under the etymon of . list from that root: Mazandarani tali “thorn”, MPers. tašk “thorn”, Natanzi (Isfahan) tasī “thorn, thistle”, Bakht. tola “hedgehog”, Tal. tīyagora “hedgehog”. --Vahag (talk) 12:35, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Armenian dialects
Do you know if the Nor Nakhichevan and Van dialects are Eastern or Western? I sorted the categories at Category:Regional Armenian into Eastern and Western dialects, but I wasn't sure about those two. Thanks, Julia ☺ ☆ 00:07, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * first we should specify what we mean by "Eastern" and "Western". There are three possibilities. 1) The two literary standards of the modern language: Standard Eastern Armenian (based on the dialects spoken on the Ararat plain and surroundings) and Standard Western Armenian (based on the dialects of Constantinople and Smyrna). I have been using Category:Eastern Armenian and Category:Western Armenian in this meaning. 2) Dialects in the 19th century located geographically in the eastern parts of historical Armenia (mainly in the Russian Empire and Iran) and in the western parts of historical Armenia (in the Ottoman Empire). You categorized the dialects according to this definition, but it is unscientific and imprecise. With wars and migrations many dialects have moved away from their historical location. 3) According to J̌ahukyan's multi-feature phonological and morphological classification, the fifty or sixty Armenian dialects fall into eleven groups, which he conditionally puts into two larger dialect groupings, Eastern and Western. This is the best categorization, being based on linguistic criteria. I reclassified the dialects according to this scheme.
 * In the future, we should separate the categories according to definition no. 1 from the categories according to definition no. 3. --Vahag (talk) 12:42, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

кино
Хотя некоторые наставиают на обратном, однако, в русском языке слово "кино" (как и вино) очень даже прекрасно склоняется по родам и падежам:


 * именительный падеж ед.ч. -- кино́ / мн.ч. -- ки́на
 * родительный падеж ед.ч. -- кина́ / мн.ч. -- кин
 * дательный падеж ед.ч. -- кину́ / мн.ч. -- ки́нам
 * винительный падеж ед.ч. -- кино́ / мн.ч. -- ки́на
 * инструментальный падеж ед.ч. -- кино́м / мн.ч. -- ки́нами
 * предложный падеж ед.ч. -- кине́ / мн.ч. -- ки́нах
 * Примеры: -- Ну, просто я давно живу. Много кин посмотрел. Поэтому я, в общем, соответствую режиссерским установкам, а тогда-то, конечно, это не в кассу было совсем. (Андрей Васильев "БЕЗ ДУРАКОВ" от 20 сентября 2007 года). // -- А на нас много кин тестируют, наверное, дешевле. // -- Видишь, мама в очках, потому что она много кин смотрела. (Корпус детских высказываний) // -- Есть много кин про Вьетнамскую компанию... (Поговорим о кино? -- от 21.09.2006 года) / -- Захотелось поразмышлять о кинах. (ЖЖ, April 7th, 2011) // -- Ну, какие кина она любит -- история новейших времён, извините? (74.ру Челябинск онлайн. 7 авг 2018) // -- О кинах и книжках. (ЖЖ, Aug. 15th, 2018) // -- Всем привет друзья сегодня автор рассказывает о кинах которые уже вышли. (Ю-Туб 2020 г.)


 * В качестве фамилии Кин: -- ...арт-тусовка никогда не считала картины супругов Кин искусством... (Тим Бертон: Я вырос в окружении этих детей.)

92.38.148.62 04:42, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Викисловарь поясняет все варианты слов. В том числе и разговорные, которые уже давно пишутся и имеются в интернете.


 * Это маргинальное употребление пояснено моим Usage notes. Большего не надо. --Vahag (talk) 08:45, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Андрей Васильев и другие известные и именитые люди в открытом эфире на "Эхо Москвы" или известные режиссёры и продюсеры киноиндустрии, -- маргиналы?! Да, уж... -- дожили! И эти люди запрещают мне ковырять в носу?.. Такие слова, как жопа, пизда или манда, а также хуй или кутак и прочие слова -- также имеют "маргинальное употребление". Викисловарь вообще-то тоже маргинален и не является академическим пропагандистским ресурсом российских министерств и ведомств. Или это не так? Они нам и американским серверам, на которых размещены "вики", деньги платят?! Диктатура партийной власти и чекистов из СССР вернулась и внедрилась в американские головы для изменения сознания? Опять гэбэшники рулят что ли?!
 * Необходимо пояснить и указать, что слово во всенародном общении может склонятся по родам и падежам (как в шаблоне), но академические представители рекомендуют слово "кино" не склонять. 92.38.148.62 12:23, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Не надо. Это создаст ложное впечатление, что склонение распространено и что только педанты на это плохо смотрят, а это не так. См. также Usage notes в . Напоследок, анекдот:
 * Матч ЦСКА-«Динамо». Полный стадион. Юный фанат, размахивая шарфом, орет:
 * — ЦСКА, сделай «Динаму»! ЦСКА, сделай «Динаму»!
 * Сидящий рядом интеллигент не выдерживает и говорит ему:
 * — Молодой человек! «Динамо» — не склоняется.
 * — Перед ЦСКой все склоняются.
 * -- Полковник ГРУ Петросян В.И. Ой. Vahag (talk) 12:47, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Никто не говорит "кино не будет". Все говорят "кина не будет". Кроме того, кто не желает склонять слово "кино" использует синоним "фильм". 92.38.148.62 12:53, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Ну так я пояснил, что фраза "кина́ не будет" популярна. И только что добавил несколько склоненных форм из твоих примеров. Этого хватит. --Vahag (talk) 13:02, 28 May 2020 (UTC)


 * In Russian, the word 'кино' (cinema) has always changed by gender and case. The template must be added to the notes:


 * А труп — это знаешь что? Выражаясь вашим киношным языком, исходящий реквизит! А раз есть реквизит — есть и кино! Нет реквизита — нет кина! Нет трупа — нет дела… (Андрей Константинов. Агентство «Золотая пуля». Дело о спасении телезвезды. Из-во: «ОЛМА Медиа Групп», М., 2004 г. ISBN 5765427006, 9785765427002 )
 * Книга издательства Эксмо 2019 года: Кина не будет
 * Сколько кин я в нём пересмотрел: Оцеола, Легенда о динозавре, Пираты ХХ века... даже проигрывать какие-то сцены из только что просмотренного фильма. (Кинотеатр Кедр, Верхняя Салда, Россия)
 * ...этому кину... Юрий Терновский. Скрытая реальностЬ. Книга вторая. Вавочка.
 * ...отношение некоторых граждан к этому кину. Не понимаю, кто этому кину понаставил высокие оценки? (КиноПоиск: Рецензии) Surenka (talk) 10:14, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Я уже выразил свое отношение — склонение слишком ново и маргинально и поэтому не достойно шаблона. Я не верю Вам, что "the word 'кино' (cinema) has always changed by gender and case". Но русский — не мой родной язык, а в России я был только пять дней. Вашу плебейскую речь я знаю только из телевизора и интернета. Попробуйте убедить User:Atitarev. Он тоже не любит Путина, вы подружитесь. --Vahag (talk) 05:04, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Спасибо, Вааг, но в данном случае, лучше быть "диктатором", если соблюдение языковых норм является для кого-то диктатурой. Своё отношение к неграммотному использованию слова я уже высказал в User_talk:92.38.148.62 и полностью поддерживаю блокировку статьи от непродуктивной войны правок и тоже считаю, что "Usage notes" предостаточны. User:Surenka, не думаю, что ваша реформа языковых норм найдёт отклик и в русском Викисловаре. User:Cinemantique, активный участник ru:wiki вас также не поддержал. Так что, возвращайтесь в ЖЖ или другие чаты, откуда вы так активно цитировали. И вообще, не нужно атаковать отдельных участников и забрасывать их своими примерами. Найдите для этого другое место. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 05:26, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Translating a Book Title into Armenian
I hesitate to ask you to translate something, since you lied by dis-translating what I provided last time.

Anyway, how could the book title How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World be translated into Armenian? (Dixtosa and others provided a few translations.)

Thanks for thinking over what you did and reading. --Apisite (talk) 09:31, 23 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Պրոլետարներ բոլոր երկրների, միացեք --Vahag (talk) 10:13, 23 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Sir, I'm turning to Reddit. --Apisite (talk) 11:22, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Armenian etymology reversions
Why did you revert some of my recent edits to Armenian and Old Armenian entry etymologies involving ? Specifically to ազդարար‬, ‪ախտարար , ‪ապառնի‬ , արարած , and արարիչ‬. İʟᴀᴡᴀ–Kᴀᴛᴀᴋᴀ (talk) (edits) 18:26, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
 * because you are recreating the list that already exists in the Derived terms section of . It's like putting all English words suffixed with in Category:English terms derived from the PIE root *leyg-. I don't like  categories at all, but if we are to have them, they should be populated with reflexes that are not formed synchronically, e.g.  and . --Vahag (talk) 18:36, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Western Armenian discussion
երջանիկ is different from the Armenian sense in that sense that we don't use it in the literary sense, but in everyday speech in Istanbul. As why I added it as colloquial (to oppose it to litterary). Thank you for all your corrections by the way.
 * No problem. Երջանիկ is probably not literary in Eastern Armenian either. It started as a learned borrowing from Old Armenian, but it has been now adopted in the vernacular as a standard word. --Vahag (talk) 04:42, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

what up bro
Figured since we haven't interacted in a while I would just pretend that's not the case and come at you with a random Armenian grammar question. This example is super trite, just for illustration, but to translate something like "X reminds me of Y" is something like ձայնդ [ինձ հիշեցնում է/հիշեցնում է ինձ] երաժշտության somewhere near correct? reminds me[acc] of thing[dat]? Armenian google didn't help me much :( Love you, bro, no homo, unless you want some casual beej —  [ זכריה קהת ] Zack. — 16:06, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Missed you, bro. You should use nominative in that construct: ձայնդ [ինձ հիշեցնում է/հիշեցնում է ինձ] երաժշտություն. Literally, "reminds me[dat] a thing[nom]". --Vahag (talk) 17:54, 20 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Doodoo! I hate getting it wrong lol... especially now that I got all poetic and dickish and have plenty more you could look at. Maybe we can add corrected failures as example sentences lol. This one actually really surprises me... so many grammatical forms and it evolved as nominative? My poor brain, why did it pick languages to nerd out over.
 * Expect further interruptions to whatever you're doing for my shenanigans :D —  [ זכריה קהת ] Zack. — 18:03, 20 July 2020 (UTC)


 * For example this question begun immediately after that last message: in general how much freedom with word order do I have if I want to be a faggoty angsty poet? —  [ זכריה קהת ] Zack. — 18:04, 20 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Bring it on :) In that sentence, almost any word order works․ But if երաժշտություն is before the verb, the auxiliary verb comes forward: ձայնդ երաժշտություն է [ինձ հիշեցնում/հիշեցնում ինձ]. --Vahag (talk) 06:39, 21 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Sweet meat. Is there anything outrageously wrong with these two sentences with no link between them?

հիմա քնաշրջիկը զարթնում է, լուսինը շրջեց թաքնվել է երկնքիս հետեւ
 * And now I'm randomly making you think about vaginas. —  [ זכריה קהת ] Zack. — 23:44, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * What's the second part supposed to mean? I don't understand it :) --Vahag (talk) 07:52, 23 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Is it like completely incomprehensible or would it help if I added the "and" that I forgot: շրջեց ու թաքնվել է
 * If it's grammatical and doesn't sound like dumbdumb talk it's ok, since it's supposed to be what I call "poetic nonsense" anyway. Fake metaphors and such lol —  [ זכריה קהת ] Zack. — 16:57, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Ու helps but is incorrect. I think you meant . And it should be հետեւը. The rest is grammatical. --Vahag (talk) 17:10, 23 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks, man. I'll probably be at you with more soon —  [ זכריה קהת ] Zack. — 18:16, 28 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Hey man, as a smart guy who knows physics stuff, what do you think about theoretical time travel? —  [ זכריה קהת ] Zack. — 11:54, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi bro. I am not that smart and it has been many years since I have done physics, but from what I remember time travel to the future is possible but not to the past. --Vahag (talk) 12:37, 13 August 2020 (UTC)


 * As far as I'm aware that's what our current understanding of physics says... Makes sense from what little I can grasp of it. —  [ זכריה קהת ] Zack. — 01:21, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Reversion of descendant terms from spʿh
Hey, you just reverted my addition of Farsi and Georgian descendent terms from the Middle Persian spʿh. I assume the error is mine — that I've misunderstood how that should work — so could you point me to the appropriate guideline, please? I don't understand why those descendants shouldn't be listed there. Thanks! — OwenBlacker | Talk 10:45, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * the descendants are already listed at Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/cwáHdaH. If you want to list them also at the Middle Persian page, then you should move all of them from Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/cwáHdaH and use at the latter page. Otherwise we will have duplication and lack of synchronization.,  does not have Inscriptional Pahlavi spʾḥ. Was it assumed from spʾḥpt? --Vahag (talk) 11:46, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah, that totally makes sense. Thank you 😊 — OwenBlacker | Talk 12:36, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Armenian Numeral Թ
Why did you delete my entry for Թ. Is Armenian numerals talking nonsense? --RichardW57 (talk) 12:38, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * the numerical value is already listed at . If you want to move it to the uppercase form, then you should do it in a systematic way for all 36 letters and you should use ===Numeral=== in the heading and in the headword line. --Vahag (talk) 13:29, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * There's no obligation to do it systematically. He who cares gets lumbered with the task (alas).  I added it because it was untidily referenced from 9, and the link confusingly pointed to something only described as a letter.  I'm not 'moving' the numeral/symbol use; I'm just adding the upper case form, just as we have similar, but clearly multilingual, Roman numeral X and x.  I've modified the template  so one only has to enter the capital form of the Armenian numeral, just as with Latin. --RichardW57 (talk) 14:30, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for wasting my time on this chore. --Vahag (talk) 15:48, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I've already put quite a bit of time into cleaning up numerals, and just because I noticed that the larger N'Ko numbers had been put in the wrong way round. My keyboard switching is unreliable.  I modified the template to make things easier for whoever chose to update the tables. --RichardW57 (talk) 16:36, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Deleting entries for lower case numerals seems to be counter-productive effort - what is the problem? Please answer at the Beer Parlour. --RichardW57 (talk) 16:50, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Only the capitals are used in the Armenian numbering system. --Vahag (talk) 05:56, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * That may well be true nowadays, but it appears that that lowercase has also been used. (Only one of the general textbooks that I consulted has mentioned its use.)  If that appearance is correct, then they may need to be marked as obsolete or archaic.  I think I have found examples of lower case dates.  I searched Google books for the string "Medieval Armenian Manuscripts at the University of California" (I was returned URL https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lQDE3cNnM7QC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Medieval+Armenian+Manuscripts+at+the+University+of+California%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiz9e_A7IjrAhU1SxUIHRpUB2wQ6AEwAHoECAQQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Medieval%20Armenian%20Manuscripts%20at%20the%20University%20of%20California%22&f=false ) and then I found what appear to be many dates in lower case Armenian numerals on pages 161 to 163.  The relevant text is less than 200 years old, despite the title of the book. --RichardW57 (talk) 10:26, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Pages 161 to 163 are not in the preview. Paste a screenshot somewhere so I can judge. --Vahag (talk) 10:46, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Screenshots at p161 and p163.
 * OK, you convinced me. Small letters can be used as numerals in a non-standard way. --Vahag (talk) 11:55, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Etymology of Arm. kʿez/ kʿo
Matasovic (2009:14) claims that the PIE *tw- phoneme yields Armenian kʿ and therefore PIE *twē "you" (cf. Acc., Sanskrit tvām) > Arm. kʿez [dat./loc./acc. singular of Arm. du (you)] note. the -ez ending in kʿez is known to derive from PIE *-ǵʰi. Martirosyan (2010:664) similarly claims that the reflex kʿo (gen. of Arm. du, from PIE *two) is from the same PIE root. However, I would like to propose a different etymological source for the kʿe stem of kʿez, and by extension for kʿo, my claim is that this stem could be alternatively derived from the PIE reflexive pronoun *swé. Initially as evidence to this claim, the development from PIE *sw- to Arm. *kʿ is well documented cf. *swésōr > Arm. kʿoyr (sister), *swópno- > Arm. kʿun (sleep), *swl̥dsḱ- > Arm. kʿałcʿ, *swidro- > Arm. kʿirtn (sweat). Seeing that the PIE *sw- > Arm. *kʿ development is possible and valid, I will move on to the semantic aspect of this etymological proposition. PIE *swé is generally and widely understood as "self" and "own" (Mallory & Adams 2006), and its usage in the wider semantic sense can be seen in Odyssey 11.142, 9.28 where ὅς (hós) means "my own" or "your own". Additionally, the semantic association between descendants of PIE *swé with the sense of "your", is seen in Kurdish where xwe is used in the multiple senses of "one's own" and "your". Furthermore, the semantic association between *swé and one’s own is seen in PIE *swésōr. Mallory & Adams (2006:214) include the following theories concerning PIE *swésōr, although the text accepts that "neither derivation is widely accepted" "the word for ‘sister’ has been variously analyzed as a compound *swe- ‘own’ + *-sōr ‘woman’, i.e. a ‘woman of one’s own family’ or, alternatively, as *su- ‘with’ + *h₁ésōr ‘blood’, i.e. ‘(woman of) one’s own bloodline’." (*su-h₁ésh₂-ōr < *swé +‎ *h₁ésh₂r̥).

Seeing that there is possible semantic intersection between PIE *swé and Arm. kʿez/ kʿo, and the PIE *sw> Arm. kʿ development is well documented, an alternative etymology is possible.


 * Thanks for offering the etymology, but I don't like it. It would unnecessarily separate part of the paradigm of from the paradigm of its Proto-Indo-European ancestor. PIE *tw- >  is regular and is also seen in  and probably . --Vahag (talk) 17:01, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Աբխազիա ≠ Ափխազիա pronunciation?
I changed the “Ափխա՛զիա/” into “Աբխա՛զիա/” because I think it’s the real pronunciation and it looks more accurate. —Diddy-sama6 (talk) 15:54, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
 * You are wrong. Do you even speak Armenian? --Vahag (talk) 17:08, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
 * No, but I can read the IPA. I’m really sorry, I just thought this was a mispronunciation. Because when I go the Armenian Wiktionary, when I see the IPA, the letter ‘բ’ is [b] and not [pʰ]. —Diddy-sama6 (talk) 20:48, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The letters are pronounced differently in different positions. /bχ/ becomes /pʰχ/. --Vahag (talk) 05:29, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Armenia
Hi Vahagn. Do you know what naming USSR Kurds were using for Armenia? Just found Êrmenîstan in РУССКО-КУРДСКИЙ СЛОВАРЬ (by И. О. ФАРИЗОВ). Thanks--Calak (talk) 10:45, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Calak. I have never met a Kurd or a Yazidi. published in Soviet Armenia has . Asatrian's Iranologists would know better, but they are currently busy at the propaganda front. By the way, I learned a new chant yesterday: Kürt, fars, erməni, Azərbaycan düşməni :) --Vahag (talk) 12:06, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I heard another chant today, though it's a bit long, bear with me: "Armenians, deported, Kurds, from, the, Kalbajar, and, from, Lachin, the, first, thing, they, did, when, they, entered, these, places, hey, hey, hey!" Allahverdi Verdizade (talk) 15:51, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh, your crocodile tears can't fool us.--Calak (talk) 17:28, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Bad chant, doesn't rhyme like mine. --Vahag (talk) 16:00, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Does this word exist outside of Nicol's lexicon? How about ? Allahverdi Verdizade (talk) 12:21, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Nikol indeed likes the word, but it is colloquially very common anyway. is rarer and is not particularly associated with my beloved führer. --Vahag (talk) 13:54, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

multi-
The Armenian translation here and on poly- is throwing an error; can you add its gender/number if it has one, or should the module be updated to allow certain words (prefixes?) to not have a gender/number? - -sche (discuss) 15:53, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I meant to use  there. Thanks for pointing out the error. For your information, Armenian has no genders. That's why when speaking Russian we normalize everything to masculine, e.g. . --Vahag (talk) 16:19, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

քաղաք
Hey, Vahag! What are the odds is related to ? --334a (talk) 18:32, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, . The connection was often made in the 19th century (Lagarde, Müller, Tērvišean, Scheftelowitz) but not anymore. I guess the reason is the phonetic irregularity. I mentioned the proposed connection anyway. --Vahag (talk) 06:34, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Stress markers around glides
Hi, I found a bug in the transcriber https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Module_talk:hy-pronunciation Hovsepig (talk) 07:03, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, . I don't know how to fix it. Maybe, who has been kindly helping with the Armenian pronunciation module, will help. --Vahag (talk) 14:50, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks (I'm still learning how to ping...). Another error I found is that ստ in Western should be /st/ in Հայաստան. Is there a general guide on all the pronunciation templates used for the Armenian entries on Wiktionary? I did a Wiktionary dump to do some stats on the Armenian entries and I noticed a lot of words with only an Eastern pronunciation + they use non-Armenian IPA symbols like /a/ Hovsepig (talk) 20:21, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
 * . I added the rule for Western /st/. There is no guide for pronunciation, but I will soon add a documentation to Template:hy-pron. The entries with non-Armenian IPA symbols like [a], [o] and [ɪ̯] are old entries created by me. They should be converted to use, with manual respelling as the template's first parameter where appropriate. --Vahag (talk) 06:22, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ʒ₁aɣl-
Hello! As I learned, it was you who added the Proto-Nakh reconstruction and its descendants. I changed the initial, but the essence remains the same; I also removed the possibly dubious ending: *džʡal-. Do you think this is a good comparison and reconstruction? Maybe this comparison should be deleted? Could it be a borrowing from Old Georgian to Proto-Vainakh: ძაღლი (ʒaɣli) > *? > жӏали (žʿali), жӏаьла (žʿäla)? (The Proto-Vainakh, apparently, rekonstruiruet one wonderful American linguist) What do you think about this? Gnosandes (talk) 07:32, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello, . I don't know. I know little about sound laws of the Caucasian languages. I had relied on Starostin's database for the etymology. These Caucasian words, especially, are similar to the Wanderwort family of discovered by . --Vahag (talk) 07:48, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

The Bulletin
Ok. Found the bulletin you asked for and I uploaded it here. Now I don't know how to get the preview working just like its on Klimovs dictionary and stuff, but you have to do with what you have. Others are on Georgian Parliament's National Library. -Solarkoid (talk) 11:01, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * thanks. I wanted to reference Lomtatidze at for connecting the Abkhaz and Laz terms. The preview starts working once archive.org does some converting. --Vahag (talk) 11:36, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Cleaning up Wiktionary
You may remember how I bemoaned trying to scrape Wiktionary before. Recently, a new software package came out for scraping Wiktionary pronunciations: WikiPron. It's marvelous. They scraped all the Armenian entries.

I found out that there were some glitches in their scraping because of glitches in some of the Armenian entries. Basically,

1) Some entries don't have both a EA and WA transcription because they don't use the hy-pron template. The extracted entries are here

2) Some entries use IPA symbols which aren't found in the hy-pron template. The extracted phone list is here for arm_e and arm_w. The 'unfiltered' data files are the original scraped material which can have the 'bad' symbols.

3) Some geminates don't exist like խխ and it's unclear if that's because of how we just don't have those words on Wiktionary, or if because there's a mistranscription somewhere.

4) It's recommended that we have separate bullet-points for standard and colloquial pronunciations so that scrapers won't conflate standard and colloquial pronuncations, e.g., for երկրորդ: (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA(key): [jɛɾkˈɾɔɾtʰ] (Eastern Armenian, colloquial) IPA(key): [jɛkˈɾɔɾtʰ] (Western Armenian, standard) IPA(key): [ˈjɛɾɡɾɔɾtʰ] (Western Armenian, colloquial) IPA(key): [ˈjɛɡɾɔɾtʰ]

I volunteered to fix 1-3 issues because that requires going through all the problematic Wiktionary entries, thanks to their scraped data. But I wanted to let you know about this because you are the main Wiktionary editor. Step 4 can be a fix for the hy-pron template.
 * I know about issues 1 and 2, thanks for fixing them. I don't understand issue 3. I will think about issue 4. --Vahag (talk) 17:47, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * 3 is more of an internal issue for them so I can handle it. I just wanted to let you know about it. Basically, they got confused over how they found almost all types of geminates attested except for խ: and some others. As for 4, I understand. They implied that it's generally preferred that multiple registers shouldn't be packaged into one pronunciation entry/bulletpoint.
 * I will be fixing 1-2 over the course of the next few weeks because they're planning another release of their scraped systems for a flagship comp-phonology conference. I'm curious if you or other Wiktionary users would be interested in volunteering too. No pressure of course (also who are other regular-ish Armenian editors here anyway?)
 * On a separate note, is there a general pipeline for adding new entries? I got myself a bunch of digitized word-lists of both WArm and EArm with translations (in excel form, with glosses and part of speech, around 60k). I'm not sure if anyone would be interested in using those files to embiggen the number of entries. Hovsepig (talk) 18:11, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * has that kind of geminate. I am not interested in going over all entries lacking and manually fixing them. If you are going to do it, please make sure you do not add it to dialectal and obsolete terms like  and  whose pronunciations are uncertain. There are no other regular Armenian Wiktionarians. User:Pompyxmori and User:Սէրուժ sometimes drop by.
 * There is no pipeline for adding new entries. I work on them at my pleasure. I am generally opposed to mass-addition of entries from a database (and if the glosses in your database are from a copyrighted source, that is out of the question), but I would like to have a look at your Excel file. Can you send it to me? --Vahag (talk) 18:48, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thankfully the WikiPron script only finds whatever has the "Standard Western" and "Standard Eastern" tags, nothing dialectal, so I won't even come across them if I do the manual fixings. As for the database, all the WA are taken from an Armenian-English dictionary. As for the EA, it got passed to me around a circle of linguists, and its ultimate source is unclear, but it seems to be from an Armenian-French dictionary. I'm mostly focusing my attention on the WA one and converting it into a large-scale morphological analyzer for WA that will be later used for some machine-translation software. I'm not sure how one can send stuff over Wiktionary Hovsepig (talk) 22:37, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions
Hi Vahagn. Is it right to say that most of the Armenian entries came from you? Because I just wan to tell you how grateful I am that you put the time and energy to put all these thousands of entries. Over the years, I've actually used the IPA entries to do my own research and data-collection. So thanks for writing the transcriptions :) Hovsepig (talk) 06:19, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, they mostly come from me. Happy to have helped! --Vahag (talk) 06:26, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Contacting me
Hi! As embarrassing it may sound, I don't know how to see emails sent to me through Wiktionary interface. I can't see the whole mail. Please DM me on Twitter whatever you want. --Cavidaga (talk) 11:16, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
 * OK, sent you a DM. --Vahag (talk) 11:34, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

نعماء
You put attention on with a comment "please check the meanings". I did not find that spelling in either of the two dictionaries I checked. The dictionaries I checked have words and  with similar meaning. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:42, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * (A, T, and P indicate words of Arabic, Turkish, and Persian origin)
 * (circular symbol indicates Arabic origin and » indicates Persian)
 * , the spelling exists in Karapetyan's dictionary and also elsewhere. I think I see it also in Redhouse. --Vahag (talk) 15:42, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Those words with loose hamza can generally be spelled with and without hamza, and they can be pronounced with a glottal stop and without it, and it is similarly true for Persian at least historically (in newest Modern Turkish the glottal stops are utterly lost). The same goes for words spelled with and  (e.g. the descendants of ). The reason is that even in Arabic itself it is kind of a diacritic and often not found set, the more one gets into the past. The printing of  does not use, , , , , though nowadays it is annoying and a 21st century edition would just add them, as I do automatically when transcribing and interpreting quotes (since we have decided that Russian texts can have stress marks added to help learners, it is even more consequential, we even go the full hog and vocalize quotes). You see the picture of the coin at  does not have it either, as do many inscriptions because the hamza is kind of small to cut and afore one wrote  anyway, which is worse – only from the 13th century one wrote definitely always every Arabic-language text at least not in rasm. Similar is true for Persian and close languages also concerning extra letters ,  and  – about which I am little acquainted with details because of not having studied other Arabic-written languages in particular. You probably have seen editors add words that look identical in rasm to .  Fay Freak (talk) 17:07, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Revert in WT:ES
Why did you revert my comment in WT:ES? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:46, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I was on the mobile. Meant to tap on the section heading and accidentally hit the huge rollback buttom. --Vahag (talk) 16:51, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Translations into Armenian by IP
Hello. has been adding translations into many different languages, Armenian being among them. Do you vouch for those? PUC – 10:19, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

, only two were incorrect, but even that is too much for me. Vahag (talk) 11:08, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Բաբա Յագա
Why not leaving Proto-Slavic, for the sake of categorization? It's not even cluttering. 151.34.12.246 16:36, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Because it's a random and uninteresting category. And your wording was bad, obscuring the fact that this is a an unexciting modern transliteration of the Russian term and not some ancient borrowing from Slavs when they still lived in the swamps of Poland. --Vahag (talk) 16:45, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Just because it is “uninteresting” doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Why not a more complete categorization? How does that bother you? And one can simply reword it, it's not a big deal, is it? 151.34.12.246 16:52, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, okay then. So the civil way to explain how your argument is more relevant is blocking the page. Thanks. 151.68.129.228 17:19, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * You didn't wait for my answer before changing the page again and you are making me type long sentences on a small computer with a weird keyboard layout in a foreign country with bad Internet. My reply disappeared twice now.
 * Deep etymologies bother me because they are complicated, disputed and are often changed later. When that happens all the linking entries need to be updated, which is an unpleasant maintenance work. Sometimes they are not updated at all, which leads to unsynchronization. Readers of this particular Armenian page do not come for its transparent etymology. The burden of future maintenance and the noise of longer etymology in this case outweigh the need of supercomplete categorization. What is the purpose of Category:Armenian terms derived from Proto-Slavic? In practice, it is the list of borrowings from those Russian words for which Proto-Slavic happens to be reconstructible. Useless. If someone is interested in such a niche porn, let him write a code and extract the information from Wiktionary. --Vahag (talk) 17:39, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, ideally Russian wouldn't be the only Slavic language, right? At least a few other borrowings may come from different ones, but I'll give you that it can be hard for maintenance. You could have simply given your explanation from the very beginning. 151.38.168.38 18:17, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

etymology of passive suffix
Hey. The wiktionary entry -ուած explains the origins of -ու from a Classical theme vowel. Do you know if people also give the same origin story for the passive suffix -ուիլ/-վել? Hovsepig (talk) 15:11, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi . Yes, that is the usual explanation. See here. --Vahag (talk) 15:34, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Dingaan Khumalo
Hello Vahagn, this message is regarding the Dingaan Khumalo page you deleted. It says you deleted it because the content was "{d} ." I put that. That s because there was a guy before me who wrote inappropriate and weird stuff that had nothing to do with Dingaan Khumalo. This had happened before with a different page. So the admin told me to put "{d}" to alert admins about the page. I tried that but it says "you must enter something after {d}" or something, so I added the period after it. Apparently {d} doesn't alert the admins or I'm missing something, but I just wanted to let you know. Hope that clears that up! Saint.Helena.Tristen.Da.Cunha.and.Asuncion. (talk) 18:05, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
 * you should have entered, with two brackets. --Vahag (talk) 18:18, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
 * When he said two curly brackets I thought he meant {d} as in literally two. Thanks for explaining! Saint.Helena.Tristen.Da.Cunha.and.Asuncion. (talk) 18:37, 15 April 2021 (UTC)