մագիլ

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Armenian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Armenian մագիլ (magil).

Pronunciation

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Noun

մագիլ (magil)

  1. claw; talon

Declension


Old Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Uncertain.

According to Ačaṙyan, perhaps a “Caucasian” borrowing; he compares Georgian მახვილი (maxvili, pointed, sharp), Udi мух (muχ, nail; claw) and several Avar forms. J̌ahukyan adds also Avar (Southern dialect) малгь (malh), Bagvalal милгьв (milhʷ, nail; claw) and considers the Armenian specifically a Northeast Caucasian borrowing. Compare also literary Avar малъ (malˢ, nail; claw). Nikolayev and Starostin reconstruct Proto-North Caucasian *mɦǟƛă, *mɦǟƛǝ̆ (finger-nail, toe-nail) for these.

Alternatively, inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nogʰ- (nail) via pre-Armenian *h₃nogʷʰ-ōl-eh₂, with the nm change possibly being the result of assimilatory influence of a labiovelar in the following syllable from Proto-Armenian or the influence of մատն (matn, finger); compare also Tocharian A maku, Tocharian B mekwa (nails). Compare however եղունգն (ełungn).

Noun

մագիլ (magil)

  1. claw, talon
    երկաթի մագիլքerkatʻi magilkʻtorturing hooks
    ըմբռնել մագլօքəmbṙnel maglōkʻto seize with the claws or talons, to clutch, to grapple, to grasp, to hook

Declension

Derived terms

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Descendants

  • Armenian: մագիլ (magil)
  • Middle Armenian: մաքիլ (makʻil)

References

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մագիլ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մագիլ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մագիլ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “մագիլ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎[1] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 609
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 255
  • Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*mɦǟƛă (~-ǝ̆)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary[2], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers