Editing Hayk (section)

== Etymology ==
{{See also|Name of Armenia#Hayastan/Hayk/Hayer}}
The name of the patriarch, ''Hayk'' ({{lang|hy|[[wikt:Հայկ|Հայկ]]}}), is not exactly homophonous with the Armenian name for "Armenia," ''Haykʻ'' ({{lang|hy|[[wikt:Հայք|Հայք]]}}). In [[Classical Armenian]], ''Haykʻ'' is the nominative plural of ''hay'' ([[wikt:հայ|հայ]]), the Armenian word for "Armenian."<ref name="Thomson-88">{{cite book |last1=Moses Khorenatsʻi |url=https://archive.org/embed/khorenatsi1978books0102 |title=History of the Armenians |last2=Thomson |first2=Robert W. |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1978 |isbn=0-674-39571-9 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |page=88 |chapter=Genealogy of Greater Armenia |author1-link=Movses Khorenatsi |author2-link=Robert W. Thomson}}</ref> While [[Robert W. Thomson]] considers the etymology of ''Haykʻ'' (Հայք) from ''Hayk'' (Հայկ) to be impossible,<ref name="Thomson-88" /> other scholars consider the connection between the two to be obvious and derive ''Hayk'' from ''hay''/''Haykʻ'' via the suffix ''-ik''.<ref name=":0">[[Hrach Martirosyan|Martirosyan, Hrach]] (2010). ''Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon'' (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, p. 383.</ref> Armen Petrosyan proposes a possible connection between the name Hayk and the [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] ''*poti-'' "master, lord, master of the house, husband."<ref name=":1">{{cite journal |last1=Petrosyan |first1=Armen |date=2009 |title=Forefather Hayk in the Light of Comparative Mythology. |url=https://archive.org/details/petrosyan-jies-2009 |journal=Journal of Indo-European Studies |volume=37 |pages=155–163}}</ref> Armenian historiography of the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] era connected ''Hayk'' and ''hay'' with [[Hayasa-Azzi|Hayasa]], a people mentioned in [[Hittite language|Hittite]] inscriptions.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Danielian, Eduard L. (1997). "The Historical Background to the Armenian State Political Doctrine," 279–286 in Awde, Nicholas (ed.). ''Armenian Perspectives'', Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, p. 279, citing E. Forrer, "Hajassa-Azzi," Caucasia, 9 (1931), and P. Kretschmer, "Der nationale Name der Armenier Haik," Anzeiger der Acad. der Wiss. in Wien, phil.-his. Klasse (1932), n. 1–7</ref> Some authors derive ''Hayk'' and ''hay'' from [[Ḫaldi|Khaldi]]/Ḫaldi, the chief god of the [[Urartu|Urartian]] pantheon, and also identify Hayk with the Urartian deity.<ref name=":12" /><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/heritageofarmeni00ajha/page/65 |title=The Heritage of Armenian Literature |date=2005 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |others=Hacikyan, A. J. (Agop Jack); Basmajian, Gabriel; Franchuk, Edward S.; Ouzounian, Nourhan. |isbn=0814328156 |volume=I |location=Detroit |page=[https://archive.org/details/heritageofarmeni00ajha/page/65 65] |oclc=42477084 |quote=Hayk, the legendary archer, has been part of Armenian culture and history since time immemorial. He was the primary god of the most prominent group of Urartian tribes, which eventually evolved into the Armenian nation. Hayk is considered the patriarch of the Armenians, and is indeed for this reason that Armenians call themselves Hay (pronounced haï). Hayk derives from the Urartian deity Khaldi, whose divide attributes he originally assumed with the constellation Orion. The well-known epic of Hayk's fight against Bell provides substantial proof that Hayk and his people stood up against Bel and halted the unrestrained influx of Semitic peoples from the south. |url-access=registration |orig-year=2000}}</ref>

The Armenian word ''haykakan'' ({{langx|hy| [[wikt:հայկական|հայկական]]|label=none}}, 'that which pertains to Armenians') derives from the name ''Hayk''. Additionally, the poetic names for the Armenian nation, ''Haykazun'' (հայկազուն) or ''Haykazn'' (հայկազն, consisting of ''Hayk'' and ''azn'' 'generation, nation, tribe'), also derive from Hayk (''Haykazn''/''Haykaz'' later became a masculine given name among Armenians).<ref name=":2">{{Cite dictionary |year=1946 |title=Haykazn |encyclopedia=Hayotsʻ andznanunneri baṛaran |publisher=Yerevan State University |url=http://nayiri.com/imagedDictionaryBrowser.jsp?dictionaryId=35&query=%D5%B0%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%A6 |last=Acharyan |first=Hrachʻya |volume=3 |pages=34}}</ref>