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START / NODE 593ArmenianClassical Armenian record–later Armenian
ստոյգ
The classical Armenian word for true, certain, real, or genuine, compared by Indo-European etymologists with the Greek true-word family.
“Armenian ստոյգ is powerful comparative evidence for the *set-u- proposal, but a comparison is not the same thing as a directly attested common ancestor.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Armenianստոյգ
true, just, certain, sure, real, authentic
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Proto-Indo-European · Proto-Indo-European Armenian preform, proposed*stéu-gho-real; certain
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- SOUND CHANGE
- Classical Armenian ստոյգ is compared with a reconstructed *stéu-gho- preform; the consonant sequence and vocalism are comparative, not attested.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- The reconstructed real or certain sense continues in the Armenian adjective and adverb.
- SCHOLAR
- Hrach Martirosyan · Robert Beekes
- CONFIDENCE
- proposed — The lexical identity is secure, while this exact preform belongs to a proposed Indo-European analysis.
2 CITATIONSՍտոյգ, ուգաց — Enriched Dictionaries of ArmenianHeadword senses and etymologies Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicons.v. stoyg AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 553 ↗
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