ալնիստ

Armenian

Etymology

According to Martirosyan, perhaps from ալք (alkʿ, “a female spirit supposed to settle on young people and suffocate them”) +‎ նիստ (nist, “sitting”). Typologically he compares Latin incubō (“to lie in or on; to sit upon”) vs. incubo (“a spirit supposed to settle on people in their sleep and suffocate them by its weight, incubus”).

Noun

ալնիստ • (alnist)

(Hamshen) a kind of drowsiness-somnolence caused by a spirit

Synonyms

թմբիր (tʿmbir)

References

Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “ալնիստ”, in Hayocʿ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume 1, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 17a
Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), “nist”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 505

单词	ալնիստ
释义	ալնիստ Armenian Etymology According to Martirosyan, perhaps from ալք (alkʿ, “a female spirit supposed to settle on young people and suffocate them”) +‎ նիստ (nist, “sitting”). Typologically he compares Latin incubō (“to lie in or on; to sit upon”) vs. incubo (“a spirit supposed to settle on people in their sleep and suffocate them by its weight, incubus”). Noun ալնիստ • (alnist) (Hamshen) a kind of drowsiness-somnolence caused by a spirit Synonyms թմբիր (tʿmbir) References Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “ալնիստ”, in Hayocʿ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume 1, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 17a Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), “nist”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 505
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