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Old Armenian
Etymology
Onomatopoeic. Possibly formed already in Proto-Indo-European: compare Ancient Greek καχάζω (kakházō), καγχάξω (kankháxō), Latin cachinno, Proto-West Germanic *kahhattjan, Old Church Slavonic хохотати (xoxotati) and Sanskrit कखति (kakhati), कक्खति (kakkhati).
Noun
խախանք • (xaxankʻ) pl
- loud laughter, guffaw
Further reading
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “խախանք”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 911b
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “խախանք”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui. Mnacʻordkʻ noragiwt baṙicʻ ew vkayutʻeancʻ yawurs [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Appendix of Newly-Discovered Words and Attestations] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 1054b
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “խախանք”, 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 316
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 455
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “խախանք”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 716
- Olsen, Birgit Anette (2017) “Part 9: Armenian”, in Kapović, Mate, editor, The Indo-European Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), 2nd edition, London, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 427
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “խախանք”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy