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Where does “ծանծաղուտ” come from?

ծանծաղուտ (Armenian) comes from Old Armenian ծանծաղուտ, from Old Armenian -ուտ, from Old Armenian -ան, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

ծանծաղուտ (Armenian): ford; shoal; shallow, not deep

Definitions

  1. ford; shoal; shallow, not deep

Ancestry of “ծանծաղուտ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Armenianծանծաղուտshallow, not deep
2Old Armenian-ուտabounding in
3Old Armenian-անfound mainly in nouns; instrument-suffix;...
4Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots
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