evan Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 Looking through some old pictures of my friends i found a few things written on the backs and these are words from 2 different pictures, can anyone tell me what they mean please? ive tried looking up in a couple different translation services but have gotten a couple different anwsers. ընտանիք Մյ Ֆամիլյ Im sorry i cant get them to paste over any bigger. Any help would be appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 can you post the picture of the things written ?? PS. Welcome to Hyeforum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twilight Bark Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 (edited) Looking through some old pictures of my friends i found a few things written on the backs and these are words from 2 different pictures, can anyone tell me what they mean please? ive tried looking up in a couple different translation services but have gotten a couple different anwsers. ընտանիք Մյ Ֆամիլյ Im sorry i cant get them to paste over any bigger. Any help would be appreciated ընտանիք is "family" Մյ Ֆամիլյ is "my family" the english phrase literally written in armenian script, one-to-one transliterating the letters (which doesn't exactly sound like "my family" if you read it as if it were Armenian). It is kind of remarkable that you had the wherewithal to write the words in Armenian script, starting presumably from handwriting, and yet don't know what they mean. And the transliteration itself is funny. The whole thing is kind of funny. Oh, well, I hope this helped. Edited July 9, 2008 by Twilight Bark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evan Posted July 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 ընտանիք is "family" Մյ Ֆամիլյ is "my family" the english phrase literally written in armenian script, one-to-one transliterating the letters (which doesn't exactly sound like "my family" if you read it as if it were Armenian). It is kind of remarkable that you had the wherewithal to write the words in Armenian script, starting presumably from handwriting, and yet don't know what they mean. And the transliteration itself is funny. The whole thing is kind of funny. Oh, well, I hope this helped. thanks helped a lot, how would you write "my family" in Armenian so it was written correctly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 (edited) ընտանիք is "family" Մյ Ֆամիլյ is "my family" the english phrase literally written in armenian script, one-to-one transliterating the letters (which doesn't exactly sound like "my family" if you read it as if it were Armenian). Ընտանիք from "ընդ-տանիք", litarally "'under' the same roof/տանիք/taniq" does in fact mean "family". Remains to see what the Latin word "familia/familliare" means"??? Does it sound "familiar" to you? Does it have anything to do with "familiar/familiarity"? I.e. to "know on another under the same roof"?? My Family? IM @ntaniq@ Իմ ընդ- տանիքը, i.e "my, under the same roof տանիք /tanik": Please note the Armenian "ընդ" as @ntanik to mean the Egnglish "und"er. Ընդ/@nd to mean "under" is also seen in words like "yendaka/ subordinate/under". If I only could stimulate us to learn the Armenian language unlike those who come here asking us what HyeMer, meaning Hayr Mer (Our Father) means. There is sizable clan with the surname of Doniikan, mostly of Marashtsi heritage.. Knowing that in the Marash dialect most A s turn to O, as in tgha/tgho to mean boy/lad. Is it that Donikian was originally meant to be Danikian, Տոնիկեան/ Տանիքեան? Edited July 9, 2008 by Arpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twilight Bark Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 thanks helped a lot, how would you write "my family" in Armenian so it was written correctly? Մայ Ֆամըլի would be a good phonetic approximation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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