Arpa Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 How many believe in witchcraft and fortunetelling? Vhuk, witch. There is not much to go about the origin of the word except that judging from the -uk ending it is possibly of Persian origin. Although Ajarian does mention its similarity to the French "ficca", he fails to see that it is even closer to the English "wicca" which is another word for "witch". Let's see how many synonyms to "vhuk" we can think of . Below the Armenian text from ArmeniaNow Jan. 21, 2005. The reason I have chosen to air the Armenian version is to all the terms of the trade like hmayk, gushak, paytsarates etc. http://www.armenianow.com/arm/?go=print&id=485 You can see the English version here; http://www.armenianow.com/eng/?go=pub&id=481&issue_id=58 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakachik77 Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 why is UK necessarily a Persian import, IK, AK exists in Russian as well, is that also a Persian import? I doubt it. Why don't we say it is just Indo-European. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted January 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 why is UK necessarily a Persian import, IK, AK exists in Russian as well, is that also a Persian import? I doubt it. Why don't we say it is just Indo-European. style_images/master/snapback.png Good point! I like it! I neglected to mention that that opinion was not mine but that of Ajarian. This same opinion has been expresed here at various times. As far as I am concerned the -uk, -ik, -ak diminutive suffixes are exclusively Armenian since I don't recall seeing them in other languages that I am familiar with. Not to get off the topic at hand, we could perhaps start another thread examining the phnomenon. Those who are fluent in Persian can shed some light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakachik77 Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 Arpa, not sure when Ajarian worked, beginning of 20th century, but I know for sure during the past 100 years or so the classification of Armenian has changed as a language being derived from Persian and has been recognized as an independent brunch with no close surviving relatives. Of course, plus now we had the whole Phrygian connection, Armens being a tribe from Balkans who brought their language with them. I think Ik/AK/UK also exist in Scandinavian languages, like they have that name Henrik (as in Henrik Ibsen), so Indo-European is definately more accurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted January 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 Dear Kakach-IK , with your indulgence I am asking the mods to move those three (plus this) responses to another topic that I will begin in the Language category. Look for "-ik, -ak, -uk Masnik". It seems you know quite a bit about language and Ajarian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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