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Etymology edit

A dialectal word, that has entered the literary language. Developed regularly from Old Armenian *մոյգ (*moyg) which is included in HHB as an Old Armenian word but whose place of attestation is unknown.[1] Usually said to be inherited from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mowgʰo-, from the root *(s)mewg- (to smoke), with such cognates as Lithuanian smáugti, Proto-Slavic *smǫglъ, Proto-Germanic *smeukaną, Proto-West Germanic *smokōn, Old Armenian մուխ (mux).[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

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Adjective edit

մուգ (mug) (superlative ամենամուգ)

  1. (of color) dark, deep
    մուգ կապույտmug kapuytdark blue

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Descendants edit

  • Georgian: მუქი (muki)

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Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “մուգ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, marking as a dialectal archaism of unknown origin
  • J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1837) “մոյգ”, in Baṙgirkʻ i barbaṙ hay ew italakan [Armenian–Italian Dictionary], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 998b
  • Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013) “մօք”, in Ġarabaġi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 531c