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Old Armenian
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mid-s, from *smei- (“to smear”) and cognate with Old High German smiz (“spot”), Old English smitta (“dirt, spot”), Old Church Slavonic смѣдъ (smědŭ, “dark, swarthy, dusky”). See also մղձկութիւն (młjkutʻiwn).
Noun
միծ • (mic)
- (fetid) mud
Usage notes
Of oblique forms only singular ablative ի մըծէ (i məcē) is attested.
Derived terms
References
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “միծ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “միծ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “միծ”, 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 469
- Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 62