PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN
ROOT
EXTENSIONS
• Arm. banam va. 'open', 'discover', 'disclose', 'develop', 'explain' ; 'loosen'; 'perforate', 'pierce', 'bore'; 'spread', 'enlarge' , 'extend' ; 'unfold', 'untwist', 'unlink' ; 'rub' vp. 'open'; to 'be detached one from another' (Bedrossian 1879: 90)
References
Bedrossian 1879 = Bedrossian, M.M. 1879. New Dictionary Armenian - English. Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy.