The Armenian Institute is privileged to have the leading Armenian linguist and etymology scholar Dr Hrach Martirosyan present this Book on Display event, where he will be in conversation with AI Librarian Gagik Stepan-Sarkissian about the work and its importance.
The event will be blended in-person/online, if you would like to attend in person, please contact our program manager at nik@armenianinstitute.org.uk.
Our next Book on Display event will feature Hrachya Acharian’s Root Dictionary of Armenian Words. The Armenian Institute Library is the proud custodian of the very rare first edition of the dictionary, a facsimile publication of the author’s handwritten copy (8,000 octavo pages). Acharian spent decades studying the roots of Armenian words and compiled a list of around 11,000 detailed entries with their definition, variations in form, theory of origin and historic development of each word. Apart from Noam Chomsky, linguists and in particular etymologists rarely achieve national celebrity status. Another exception is Acharian (1876-1953), who became a prominent cultural figure and ‘public intellectual’ in his lifetime, a reputation that has endured in Armenia and the diaspora after his death.
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