Old Armenian
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The Old Armenian contains many strata of varying origin. A number of words have been borrowed from Middle Persian, a very large stratum is constituted of words of Parthian origin, and there seem to be a few words from the Old Iranian languages. No traces of contacts with the Scythians appear in the language at all, nor do there seem to be any traces of "Western Indo Iranian (Mitannian)" [1]
[edit] Notes and References
- ^ The etymologies of Old Armenian words from "Western Indo Iranian" which Kapantsjan has proposed (1947, 136-37) all have another explanation (the majority are from Parthian). The word Arcui "eagle", possibly came into Old Armenian through Urartian; it is at tested also in the Nakh-Daghestan languages.
