Armenian Language Corner
Egg Hunting
Everybody knows that it is a guy in the United States and a chap in England, or an elevator here and...
The Mysteries of the Eggplant
We are all familiar with eggplants, but not so much with the fact that their name actually has somet...
Of Trust and Confidence
As it happens with so many words, the belief or reliance on the veracity, integrity, good will, or o...
Old Words that Took a New Life
From the sixth century B.C. to the beginning of the nineteenth century, Armenia was under Iranian do...
When Being Free Becomes Risky
English has two words for the same concept, “freedom” and “liberty,” the former coming from Old Engl...
How Do We Take Neither Side?
When something does not grammatically belong either to the masculine or the feminine gender, we say ...
From Bombs to Soccer
You can probably figure out, without being an expert linguist, that the word “bomb” is related to th...
Children Soldiers?
The Armenian word մանկապարտէզ (mangabardez) is what linguists call a “calque translation” of the con...
Two Cousin Cows
The reconstruction of a prehistoric vocabulary, at the same time, reflects upon the culture that tho...
(R)evolution
There are people who are in favor of evolutionary change, while others are prone to revolutionary ch...