A Linguist specialized in comparatvie studies, PhD, Leiden University. In 1991 Martirosyan graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Vanadzor Pedagogi\u00adcal University (Armenia). In 2008 he re\u00adceived a PhD from Leiden University. A reviewed and enhanced version of his dissertation was later on published in the form of \u201cEtymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon\u201d (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2010). Martirosyan\u2019s acade-mic interests cover the history of the Ar\u00admenian language beginning from its In\u00addo-European sources to the dialects and the modern language. Martirosyan is the author of a number of articles, as well as online publications on the history of the Armenian language, dialects, etymolog\u00adical issues, etc. He has presented papers at international conferences, conduct\u00aded courses, lectures and workshops in Leiden, Michigan, Oxford, Cambridge, Sorbonne, Pavia, Moscow, Armenia, etc.<\/p>\n
ARMENIAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: THREE ETYMOLOGIES<\/strong><\/p>\n The Armenian lexicon comprises three major layers: A Linguist specialized in comparatvie studies, PhD, Leiden University. In 1991 Martirosyan graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Vanadzor Pedagogi\u00adcal University (Armenia). In 2008 he re\u00adceived a PhD from Leiden University. A reviewed and enhanced version of his dissertation was later on published in the form of \u201cEtymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-participants-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6731,"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions\/6731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1) Native Armenian words, that is: words of Indo-European heritage (5th-4th millen\u00adnia BC) or words composed on Armenian grounds;
\n2) late Indo-European and Mediterranean\/ European substrate: (3rd-2nd millennia BC);
\n3) loan-words from neighbouring languag\u00ades, such as Caucasian, Anatolian, Hurrian, Urartian, Semitic and especially Iranian: (2nd-1st millennia BC to present).
\nThe first two layers belong to prehistoric times, whereas the third belongs to the most recent period and is partially eluci\u00addated by historical records. This paper aims to etymologize three Armenian words for musical instruments that belong to various layers of the Armenian lexicon.
\nSamples to be discussed:<\/p>\n\n