մաքի

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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