Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian մագիլ (magil).

Pronunciation edit

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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 (akʿ, leg), աթուր (atʿur, foot), քիթ (kʿitʿ, nose), գանգ (gang, skull), կառափն (kaṙapʿn, skull).

Noun edit

մագիլ (magil)

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

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Middle Armenian: մաքիլ (makʿil)
  • 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, issue 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, Hračʿeay (1977), “մագիլ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, 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) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; 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, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

Further reading edit

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