մաքս

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Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian մաքս (makʻs).

Pronunciation

Noun

մաքս (makʻs)

  1. custom, tariff, toll, duty, excise

Declension

Derived terms

Old Armenian

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܡܟܣܐ (maḵsā). First etymologized by Schröder.

Noun

մաքս (makʻs)

  1. custom, tariff, toll, duty, excise

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Armenian: մաքս (makʻs)

References

  1. ^ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 311
  2. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մաքս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 292ab
  3. ^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 932
  4. ^ Schröder, Johann Joachim (1711) Thesaurus linguae Armenicae antiquae et hodiernae, Amsterdam, page 46

Further reading

  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “մաքս”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 232b
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մաքս”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 461b