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The Etymology of Armenian ert'am

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Charles R. Barton
Charles R. Barton*
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New York University
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In his article ‘Problems of Armenian phonology III’, Lg. 38.254–62 (1962), Werner Winter treats the metathesis of IE consonant clusters in Old Armenian. To his example for the development of initial IE *tr-, Arm. erek' 'three' : Lat. trēs, I should like to add Arm. ert'am ‘go’ : Lat. in-trā-re ‘go in, enter’, trā-ns ‘across’; Skt. tr-ya-te ‘rescue’, cf. tára-ti ‘pass’; Gk. trā-ns ‘piercing’; from IE *trā-. Morphologically, erVam parallels other Arm. -am verbs, as gam ‘come’ < *- : Lat. vā-dō ‘go’, OHG. wa-tan ‘wade’ and perhaps ham ‘stand’ < * : Skt. aor. á-gā-t ‘went’.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 39 , Issue 4: October-December , December 1963, pp. 620
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Copyright © 1963 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 See J. G. Pokorny, Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 1.1075 (Bern, 1959), for all the forms but the Armenian.

2 Esquisse d'une grammaire comparée de l'arménien classique 2 135 (Vienne, 1936).