# ալի
## Armenian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ալի (ali)

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /ɑˈli/, [ɑlí]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /ɑˈli/, [ɑlí]

### Noun

ալի • (ali)
* Alternative form of ալիք (alikʻ)

#### Declension
## Old Armenian
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“pale, grey”). Martirosyan tentatively reconstructs the derivation as ալի (ali) ← Proto-Armenian *aliya- ← *(p)olíya- ← Proto-Indo-European *polyeh₂-.

#### Noun

ալի • (ali)
* (usually in the plural) wave, billow, surge, swell of the sea
    ալիս յարուցանել ― alis yarucʻanel ― to agitate the waves
    հերձանել, պատառել զալիս ― herjanel, pataṙel zalis ― to cleave the waves
* (usually in the plural) gray hair; old age
    ծաղկիլ ալեաց, խոնարհիլ յալիս ― całkil aleacʻ, xonarhil yalis ― to grow gray-haired, to get old

##### Derived terms

* ալեակ (aleak)
* ալեւոյթ (alewoytʻ)
* ալեւոր (alewor)
* ալեւորիմ (aleworim)
* ալեւորութիւն (aleworutʻiwn)
* ալէգետ (alēget)
* ալէխառն (alēxaṙn)
* ալէծաղիկ (alēcałik)
* ալէկոծ (alēkoc)
* ալէկոծանք (alēkocankʻ)
* ալէկոծեմ (alēkocem)
* ալէկոծիմ (alēkocim)
* ալէկոծութիւն (alēkocutʻiwn)
* ալէկոծումն (alēkocumn)
* ալէտանջ (alētanǰ)
* ալիասաստ (aliasast)
* աղեբեկ (ałebek)
* աղէբեկ (ałēbek)
* անալէկոծ (analēkoc)
* երեքալեան (erekʻalean)
* սպիտակալիք (spitakalikʻ)

##### Descendants

* Armenian: ալիք (alikʻ)

#### References

* Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 34
* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ալի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ալիք”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
* Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “ali-kʿ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 14
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ալիք”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy

### Etymology 2

Ačaṙyan leaves the origin open.
According to J̌ahukyan perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *əliyo-, from the root *Heh₃l- (“to bend”), among the cognates note especially Welsh olwyn (“wheel”).

#### Noun

ալի • (ali)
* The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
** axle
** millstone
** pulley

##### Usage notes

* The word is a hapax legomenon.
* The nominative *ալ (*al) reconstructed by Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui is probably wrong.

#### References

* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ալի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ալ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ալի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 93a
* Pokorny, Julius (1959) “⁸el-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 307 of 307, 308
* J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1963) “Stugabanutʻyunner [Etymologies]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎ (in Armenian), number 4, Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 86–87