յատակ

• ատակ (atak)

Inherited from Old Armenian յատակ (yatak).

յատակ • (yatak)

1. bottom (e.g. of a sea, stomach, etc.)
2. land, country

   յատակ հայրենեաց ― yatak hayreneacʻ ― native land or country

3. homeland

• Armenian: ատակ (atak)
  • → Udi: атӏакӏ (aṭaḳ)

• Awetikʻean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “յատակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979), “յատակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press

Together with Old Georgian იატაკი (iaṭaḳi), ევატაკი (evaṭaḳi) borrowed from an unidentified Middle Iranian word whose second part is likely the etymon of տակ (tak, “bottom”). For the y ~ v alternation seen in յատակ (yatak) ~ ევატაკი (evaṭaḳi) note the same alternation in other Iranian borrowings: յուշապ (yušap) ~ վիշապ (višap), յուշկապարիկ (yuškaparik) ~ վշկապարիք (vškaparikʻ).

յատակ • (yatak)

1. bottom (of sea, underworld, hell, etc.)

   յատակ գետոց ― yatak getocʻ ― canal, bed of a river

   յատակ աղիւսակերտ ― yatak ałiwsakert ― brick pavement

   յատակ սալայատակ ― yatak salayatak ― stone pavement

   յատակ նաւու ― yatak nawu ― keel of a ship

   առ յատակաւ կործանել, քանդել մինչեւ ցյատակ/ցյատակս ― aṙ yatakaw korcanel, kʻandel minčʻew cʻyatak/cʻyataks ― to raze to the ground, to level or lay even with the ground, to demolish, to raze or pull down; to sap, to undermine

   լի լինել գետոյն յամենայն յատակս իւր ― li linel getoyn yamenayn yataks iwr ― to be swelled very high, to rise, to swell beyond, to overflow

2. land, country

   յատակ հայրենի/հայրենեաց ― yatak hayreni/hayreneacʻ ― native land or country, birth-place, home

• Middle Armenian: յատակ (yatak), ատակ (atak)
  • Armenian: ատակ (atak)
    • → Udi: атӏакӏ (aṭaḳ)
• → Armenian: հատակ (hatak) (learned)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977), “յատակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, pages 386–387
• Awetikʻean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “յատակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Lagarde, Paul de (1854), Zur Urgeschichte der Armenier: ein philologischer Versuch (in German), Berlin: W. Hertz, page 14
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 489 explains as յ- (y-) + Iranian *a-tā̆k (“bottomless”), composed of the privative prefix *a- and *tā̆k (“bottom”), whence տակ (tak).
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879), “յատակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy