կմախք

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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

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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 Narekacʿi, Matean ołbergutʿean [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]

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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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