Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Old Armenian մաքի (makʻi).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

մաքի (makʻi)

  1. ewe
  2. (dialectal) sheep in general

Declension edit

Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From an onomatopoeic Proto-Indo-European root, reflected also in Ancient Greek μηκάς (mēkás, bleating one; goat), μηκάομαι (mēkáomai, to bleat), Sanskrit मकमकायते (makamakāyate, to croak), German meckern, Latin miccio.

Noun edit

մաքի (makʻi)

  1. ewe

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: մաքի (makʻi)

References edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մաքի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մաքի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մաքի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 455