հան

From Old Armenian հան (han); see it for more.

հան • (han)

1. (archaic) grandmother

• տատ (tat)

• հանի (hani)

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- (“old woman, ancestor”). Cognates include Latin anus (“old woman”), Ancient Greek ἀννίς (annís, “grandmother”), Lithuanian anyta (“mother-in-law”), Hittite [script needed] (ḫanna-, “grandmother”). The by-form հանի (hani) may derive from *h₂en-ih₂ equivalent to Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- with the feminine suffix *-ih₂.

The word may have also had the meaning of “male ancestor” in Proto-Armenian: compare the Georgian borrowing ჰანი (hani, “male or female ancestor”).

հան • (han)

1. grandmother

• հանիկ (hanik)

• աներ (aner)

• Armenian: հան (han)
• Georgian: ჰანი (hani)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “հան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “հան”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “հան”, 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 388