Armenians’ Self-Appellation Hay

The article provides a critical overview of all suggested etymologies for the Armenians’ self-designation Hay. The author points out that the ethnonym coincides with the dialectal appellative noun hay ‘master, husband, housholder’ (cf. mer hayə ‘our hay’, that is ‘our husband, our householder’, an e...

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Main Author: Armen Petrosyan
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2016-12-01
Series:Voprosy Onomastiki
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