Արտաշէն

Old Armenian

Etymology

A Middle Iranian borrowing. Traditionally explained as a hypocoristic in -ēn (see Զաւէն (Zawēn) for this suffix) of names with *Arta(x)š-, such as Արտաշէս (Artašēs), Արտաշիր (Artašir), thus Old Iranian *R̥ta-xš-aina-. But Justi explains as Old Iranian *R̥ta-šayana- (“having a clean dwelling, whose house is the seat of [religious] purity”) (see շէն (šēn)).

Proper noun

Արտաշէն • (Artašēn) (hapax)

a male given name, Artashen
- 5th century, Pʿawstos Buzand, Hayoc Patmutʿiwnʿ [History of the Armenians] V.37:[1][2]
  Բայց Մանուէլ որդի Արտաշինայ ի Մամիկոնեան ի տոհմէն, հանդերձ եղբարբն իւրով Կոմսիւ, բազում քաջութիւնս կատարեալ ի նմին ճակատուն, սակայն հետիոտս ապրէին:
  Baycʿ Manuēl ordi Artašinay i Mamikonean i tohmēn, handerj ełbarbn iwrov Komsiw, bazum kʿaǰutʿiwns katareal i nmin čakatun, sakayn hetiots aprēin:
  Translation by Nina G. Garsoïan
  But Manuēl son of Artašēn from the Mamikonean house, together with his brother Koms, performed many deeds of valor in this battle, though they survived [only] on foot.

Usage notes

The only known bearer of the name is Artašēn, a 4th century noble of Mamikonean house, father of sparapet Manuēl and Koms.

Declension

a-type

	singular (uncountable)
nominative	Արտաշէն (Artašēn)
genitive	Արտաշինայ (Artašinay)
dative	Արտաշինայ (Artašinay)
accusative	Արտաշէն (Artašēn)
ablative	Արտաշինայ (Artašinay)
instrumental	Արտաշինաւ (Artašinaw)
locative	Արտաշէն (Artašēn)

Related terms

Արտակ (Artak)

Descendants

→ Armenian: Արտաշեն (Artašen) (learned)

References

Pʿawstos Buzandacʿi (1883), Kʿ. Patkanean, editor, Patmutʿiwn Hayocʿ‎, Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, pages 201–202
Garsoïan, Nina G. (1989) The Epic Histories Attributed to P‘awstos Buzand (Buzandaran Patmut‘iwnk‘)‎, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 218

Ačaṙyan, Hračʿya (1942), “Արտաշէն”, in Hayocʿ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʿyunner; 21) (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 305
Garsoïan, Nina G. (1989), “Artašēs / Artašēn Mamikonean”, in The Epic Histories Attributed to P‘awstos Buzand (Buzandaran Patmut‘iwnk‘). Appendix I: Prosopography, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, pages 356–357
Horn, Paul (1898–1901), “Neupersische Schriftsprache [New Persian written language]”, in Geiger, Wilhelm; Kuhn, Ernst, editors, Grundriß der iranischen Philologie [Outline of Iranian Philology] (in German), volume I, part II, Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, page 191
Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 30–31 with footnote 1, also page 90, footnote 2
Justi, Ferdinand (1895), “Artašin”, in Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, pages 37b, also 424, 511, incorrectly assumes the nominative to be *Արտաշին (*Artašin) based on the attested genitive Արտաշինայ (Artašinay), but the genitive of *Արտաշին (*Artašin) would have been *Արտաշնայ (*Artašnay)
Rüdiger, Schmitt (1984), “Iranische Namenschichten und Namentypen bei altarmenischen Historikern”, in Beiträge zur Namenforschung. Neue Folge (in German), volume 19, page 330 of 317–331
Toumanoff, Cyrille (1976) Manuel de généalogie et de chronologie pour l'histoire de la Caucasie chrétienne (Arménie - Géorgie - Albanie) (in French), Rome: Edizioni Aquila, § 4d, page 331, spelling as Artaschin

[1] Pʿawstos Buzandacʿi (1883), Kʿ. Patkanean, editor, Patmutʿiwn Hayocʿ‎, Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, pages 201–202

[2] Garsoïan, Nina G. (1989) The Epic Histories Attributed to P‘awstos Buzand (Buzandaran Patmut‘iwnk‘)‎, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 218