Grabar (Ancient Armenian language) as a source of the enrichment of vocabulary and term-formation of the Modern Eastern Armenian

The vocabulary of Modern Eastern Armenian is in the process of constant development, the rapidity and directions of which arefirst and foremost conditioned by itsstatus ofstate language, by the development of science and by the extending, international, global communications of its native speakers. Within the frames of the topic of our investigation we will investigate the role of Grabar in the 21st century in the enrichment of Eastern Armenian vocabulary and particularly, inits term-formation. The century-long tradition of the elaboration of Armenian analogues, the translation of foreign words and terms is a productive basis to search forthe Armenian equivalents of new concepts. Our investigation will comprise the vocabulary of original and translated works of Classical and Post-Classical periods of Old Armenian, the word-stock of Hellenophile and Latinophile works, the dictionaries of Grabar in which there is a rich vocabulary with the potential of becoming actual and contemporary. As the result of the research, the lexical units of Grabar,which have already become productive in contemporary Armenian, will be systematizedinto a dictionary-corpus.