Persian edit

Etymology edit

Probably a loanword from Northwestern Iranian. Compare Gazi مکامن (mekāmun, to suck). Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *maič- (to suck), which has no clear Indo-European etymology. Doublet of مزیدن (mazidan, to taste), which was inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (myc- /⁠mēz-⁠/, to suck) from the same root.[1]

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? makīḏan
Dari reading? makīdan
Iranian reading? makidan
Tajik reading? makidan

Verb edit

Dari مکیدن
Iranian Persian
Tajik макидан

مکیدن (makidan) (present stem مک (mak))

  1. to suck
  2. to absorb

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*maič”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN