Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian կմախք (kmaxkʻ).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

կմախք (kmaxkʻ)

  1. skeleton
  2. (figuratively, derogatory) very thin person

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Akkadian 𒆠𒈤 (/⁠kimāḫu, gimāḫu⁠/, grave, tomb) + (-kʻ),[1][2] whence also Aramaic גומח (gwmḥ, burial niche, loculus).[3] The Akkadian word is itself borrowed from Sumerian 𒆠𒈤 (ki-maḫ, grave; a cultic place, literally great place)[4] The same etymon is reflected also in Old Armenian կմախի-ք (kmaxi-kʻ, lamentation over the dead) and the place name Կամախ (Kamax, Kamax, the necropolis of Armenian kings).[2]

Noun edit

կմախք (kmaxkʻpl

  1. skeleton
    • completed c. 1002–1003, Grigor Narekacʻi, Matean ołbergutʻean [Book of Lamentations] :
      [] անարգեալ կմախք և իբր զանպիտան առ ոտն կոխեալ։
      [] anargeal kmaxkʻ ew ibr zanpitan aṙ otn koxeal.
      [] contemptible skeleton, like some useless thing trodden under foot.

Usage notes edit

Baṙgirkʿ Hayocʿ glosses կմախք (kmaxkʻ) as “ոսկերք (oskerkʻ) or կոտորածք (kotorackʻ)” and the verb կմախել (kmaxel) as “կարթահարել (kartʻaharel) or ջլատել (ǰlatel)”,[5] but Ačaṙean considers these meanings spurious.[2]

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: կմախք (kmaxkʻ)

References edit

  1. ^ Brockelmann C. (1898) “Ein assyrisches Lehnwort im Armenischen”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete[1], volume 13, pages 327–328.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կմախ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 605
  3. ^ Hoftijzer, J, Jongeling, K. (1995) “gmḥ”, in Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten; 21), volume I, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, pages 225–226
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    The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary[2], University of Pennsylvania, 2006
  5. ^ Eremia Meġrecʻi (1698) “կմախք”, in Baṙgirkʻ hayocʻ [Armenian Dictionary] (in Armenian), Livorno: Sargis Evdokiacʻi Sahetʻči Press, page 164

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