In our debut episode of Treasures From The Library, our very own librarian Gagik Stepan-Sarkissian details the history, contents and current relevance of Hrachya Acharian’s etymological dictionary, hand-written in the twentieth century after decades of studying the root of Armenian words and compiling an ever-growing list. It lists around 11,000 detailed entries of the definition, declension/conjugation, history, and theory of origin and historic development of each word. It is no surprise that Acharian is still, almost a century after its publication, considered the father of Armenian linguistics.
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