մագիլ

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian մագիլ (magil).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Noun[edit]

մագիլ (magil)

  1. claw, talon
    Synonyms: ճիրան (čiran), ճանկ (čank)

Declension[edit]

Old Armenian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Uncertain.

Sometimes considered a cognate of Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux) and Old Armenian եղունգն (ełungn), inherited from some derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₃nṓgʰs through complicated sound changes and analogical influences.[1][2]

More likely a Northeast Caucasian borrowing: compare Avar малъ (malˢ), dialectal малгь (malh, nail; claw), plural малъал (malˢal), dialectal plural малгьил (malhil), малгьал (malhal), малал (malal), малъал (malˢal), махьял (max̂jal), Bagvalal милгьв (milhʷ), Udi мух (muχ), Chechen мӏара (mˀara), маӏар (maˀar), Bats მჵაჲრი̆ (m'ayrĭ, nail; claw) etc.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Nikolayev and Starostin consider these terms to be native.[12] For other body part names possibly borrowed from Northeast Caucasian compare աք (akʻ, leg), աթուր (atʻur, foot), քիթ (kʻitʻ, nose), գանգ (gang, skull), կառափն (kaṙapʻn, skull).

Noun[edit]

մագիլ (magil)

  1. claw, talon
    Synonyms: ճիրան (čiran), ճանկ (čank)
    երկաթի մագիլքerkatʻi magilkʻtorturing hooks
    ըմբռնել մագլօքəmbṙnel maglōkʻto seize with the claws or talons, to clutch, to grapple, to grasp, to hook

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle Armenian: մաքիլ (makʻil)
  • Armenian: մագիլ (magil) (learned)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 453
  2. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 255, 464, 715
  3. ^ Tomaschek, Wilhelm (1883) “Review of Hübschmann 1883”, in Deutsche Litteraturzeitung (in German), volume IV, number 36, Berlin, columns 1253–1254
  4. ^ Bugge, Sophus (1889) “Beiträge zur etymologischen Erläuterung der armenischen Sprache”, in Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-selskabet i Christiania (in German), No. 4, Christiania, page 35
  5. ^ Bugge, Sophus (1893) “Beiträge zur etymologischen Erläuterung der armenischen Sprache”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung (in German), volume 32, page 85
  6. ^ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 471
  7. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մագիլ”, 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 219–220
  8. ^ Хайдаков, С. М. (1973) Сравнительно-сопоставительный словарь дагестанских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Dagestan Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 39
  9. ^ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎[1] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 609
  10. ^ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “մագիլ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 499a
  11. ^ Saidova, P. A. (1999) “малъ”, in Диалектологический словарь аварского языка [Dialectological dictionary of Avar] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 245b, without the Armenian
  12. ^ Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*mɦǟƛă (~-ǝ̆)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary[2], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

Further reading[edit]

  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մագիլ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մագիլ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy