Old Armenian

Verb

մեկնեմ • ‎(meknem)

1. (transitive) to divide, to separate, to isolate; to detach, to loose, to remove

   մեկնել ի ստենէ‎ ― meknel i stenē ― to wean

   թուղթ մեկնելոյ‎ ― tʿułtʿ mekneloy ― bill of divorce

2. (transitive) to stretch, to hold out, to stretch forth
3. (transitive) to explain, to interpret, to comment upon

   թիւր մեկնել‎ ― tʿiwr meknel ― to interpret malignantly, to misconstrue, to put an ill construction on; to preach a perverse doctrine

4. (in the mediopassive, intransitive) to separate, to disunite, to part, to get loose; to remove, to go away, to depart, to retire, to go out, to make off, to steal away

   մեկնել ի ցամաքէ‎ ― meknel i cʿamakʿē ― to bear off from the shore, to take sea-room, to stand out to sea

   մեկնել ի կնոջէ‎ ― meknel i knoǰē ― to give a bill of divorce

   մեկնել ի հիացումն‎ ― meknel i hiacʿumn ― to go into ecstasies

5. (in the mediopassive, intransitive) to abstain, to forbear; to leave off, to desist, to cease
6. (in the mediopassive, intransitive) to stretch
7. (in the mediopassive, intransitive) to explain oneself

Conjugation

Descendants

• Armenian: մեկնել ‎(meknel)

References

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “մեկնեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “մի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935