իջանեմ

• իջանիմ (iǰanim) (dialectal)

From the root *էջ- (*ēǰ-, “to come/go down, descend; to stay overnight; to calm down”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁e/oi-gʰ, +‎ -ան- (-an-). Cognate with Ancient Greek οἴχομαι (oíkhomai, “to go (away), leave, disappear”), οἰχνέω (oikhnéō, “to go, come, walk, approach”), Lithuanian eigà (“course”), Old Irish oegi (“guest”). Armenian demonstrates a semantic shift ‘to go’ → ‘to go down’.

իջանեմ • (iǰanem)

1. (intransitive) to descend; to fall; to decline; to sink; to light, to sit down

   իջանել ի նաւէ ― iǰanel i nawē ― to disembark, to go ashore, to land

   իջանել ի կառաց ― iǰanel i kaṙacʿ ― to alight, to get out of a carriage

   իջանել յերիվարէ ― iǰanel yerivarē ― to dismount or alight, to get off, to get down from a horse

   արտասուք զկարմրերփեան ծնօտիւքն իջանէին ― artasukʿ zkarmrerpʿean cnōtiwkʿn iǰanēin ― the tears fell down his (or her) rosy cheeks

   իջանել ի գերեզման, ի հող մահու ― iǰanel i gerezman, i hoł mahu ― to descend into the grave, to be buried

   ի ծառայութիւն իջանել ― i caṙayutʿiwn iǰanel ― to lower oneself to servitude, to become a servant

   յաղքատութիւն իջանել ― yałkʿatutʿiwn iǰanel ― to impoverish oneself, to become poor

   իջանել ի հպարտութենէն ― iǰanel i hpartutʿenēn ― to humiliate oneself; to relent, to soften, to become calmed, appeased

   իջանել ի թիկունս ― iǰanel i tʿikuns ― to go to the rescue, to succour

   իջանել ի հանդէս մարտի ― iǰanel i handēs marti ― to come to blows, to fight

   այս ճանապարհ իջանէ ի Տրապիզոնէ ի Կարին ― ays čanaparh iǰanē i Trapizonē i Karin ― this route leads from Trebizond to Erzerum

   էջ մրրիկ հողմոյ ի ծովակն ― ēǰ mrrik hołmoy i covakn ― a storm broke over the lake

2. (intransitive) to subside, to abate, to settle
3. (intransitive) to empty itself

   իջանել գետոց ի ծով ― iǰanel getocʿ i cov ― to discharge, to fall into, to disembogue, to disgorge, to empty itself, to overflow

4. (intransitive) to lodge, to stop at, to sojourn

   իջանել յօթեւան ուրեք ― iǰanel yōtʿewan urekʿ ― to put up at an hotel

5. (intransitive) to descend from, to be born of

• Armenian: իջնել (iǰnel)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “իջանեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “իջանեմ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “էջ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 277