Մի քանի խօսք Բոշայ անուան շուրջ

Վարդան Ոսկանեան

Մի քանի խօսք Բոշայ անուան շուրջ

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Վարդան Ոսկանեան, «Մի քանի խօսք Բոշայ անուան շուրջ».pdf (2.84 MB)

Date

2003

Authors

Վարդան Ոսկանեան

Abstract

Part of the gypsies, who lived originally in the northeast of the Indian Peninsula, left this region in the early centuries of the first millennium A.D., settled on the Armenian Plateau in the 11th-12th centuries were gradually integrated into the Armenian people. However, the existence of gypsies among the Armenians led to the enrichment of the Armenian language with new words related to the former ethnic group. Vardan Voskanian selects all the words with such connotations that can be found in the Armenian literary language, as well as in the various Armenian dialects. He discusses the etymology and semantics of these words. The eldest of these words is boshay, which is mentioned in writing as early as 1597. The other words discussed by Voskanian are the following: gnchu, taparakan, hay-boshay, maghagorts-boshay, metreb/merteb jingian/jengian/jiengjana/chinkiane, gharachi, lorik, ebdal/avdal, lom and dom.