Mazamit Mit

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Mazamit Mit

 

Pardon the barakhagh (play on words, forget the -utyun since "khagh"=play/game is a noun all by itself). The above topic is supposed to mean a Hairbrained Idea, yet another pun on the phrase "harebrained", to mean the brain of a hare/rabbit, an expression alluding to the lack of a hare's intelligence, probably based on Aesop's parable about the Hare and the Totoise.

 

This whole thing started when Gamavor quoted a sentence from Khorenatsi's Vahagni Tsund@: "Na hur her uner, Bots uner morous, ev achkounqn eyin aregakunq". He had hair of fire(red), and a beard of flame, and his eyes were a pair of suns.

Ladies beware! As this item may put hair on one's chest. Seap and others need not worry as they have plenty and they may be described as "herarat", hirsute, plenty of hair.

 

Let us listen to Khorenatsi as he describes Vahagn.

 

Erkner erkin, erkner erkir,

Erkner ev tsov tsirani.

Erkn i tsovun uner ev zkarmrikn eghegnik,

 

@nd eghekan pogh tsukh elaner,

@nd eghegan pogh bots elaner,

Ev i botsuyn vazer khartyash patanekik.

 

Na hur her uner,

Bots uner morus,

Ev achkunqn eyin aregakunq

The translation I have translates "erkner" as turbulent". I must differ linguistically if not in spirit, as "erkner" is based on the word "erkunq", birth, parturition, i.e. one becoming two, erku/erkunq. I would have translated it as; Heavens become two, earth becomes two, and so does the sea of tsirani, whereby Vahagn is born of the heavens, the earth and the sea. (Why the sea is described as "tsirani", we have spoken about that previously, we can again if need be. Or you may refer to one of my posts probably titled "Tsirani").

 

Not only this post will be a harebrained/napastkamit/mazamit(?), it may also be a hair raising experience.

 

Here is what we find in the Sukyasian Homanishneri Bararan under MAZ.

ز¼, лñ, í³ñë, ͳÙ, ·»ë, ·Çë³Ï, ³Õí³Ù³½, λÕͳÙ, Ò³ñ, µ³ß, ³ÛÍÛ³, ëï»õ, ½³Õ³å, ûÉ, Ù³½Ù½áõÏ

Maz; Her (as in men), vars, tsam (as in women), keghtsam (artificial, toupe/wig), aghvamaz (tender/fuzz), Dzar (as in horses), bash (of horses and lions, i.e. mane), aytsya (of goeats), stev(of pigs and boars and camels, zaghap (of fruits, as in peaches), mazmzuk (in plants as in the miniature/hairy roots).

 

We will get back to see why each of the synonyms of maz/hair, in the meantime I will get out of here in a "mazapurts"(saved by a hair) fashion.

 

Mazapurts, made up of maz and prtsil, hair and flee/escape/save oneself. Does this word come from the days of the caveman when women were dragged in by the hair and they would struggle until they were "mazapurts", prtsel their maz?

 

An expressions based on maz.

Mazin dpchil= to touch one's hair, to harm.