# մագիլ
## Armenian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian մագիլ (magil).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /mɑˈɡil/, [mɑɡíl]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /mɑˈkil/, [mɑkʰíl]
* Audio (Eastern Armenian):(file)

### Noun

մագիլ • (magil)
* claw, talon
    Synonyms: ճիրան (čiran), ճանկ (čank)

#### Declension
## Old Armenian
### Alternative forms

* մակիլ (makil), մագալ (magal)

### Etymology

Uncertain.
Sometimes considered a cognate of Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux) and Old Armenian եղունգն (ełungn), inherited from some derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₃nṓgʰs through complicated sound changes and analogical influences.
More likely a Northeast Caucasian borrowing: compare Avar малъ (malˢ), dialectal малгь (malh, “nail; claw”), plural малъал (malˢal), dialectal plural малгьил (malhil), малгьал (malhal), малал (malal), малъал (malˢal), махьял (max̂jal), Bagvalal милгьв (milhʷ), Udi мух (muꭓ), Chechen мӏара (mˀara), маӏар (maˀar), Bats მჵაჲრი̆ (m'ayrĭ, “nail; claw”) etc. Nikolayev and Starostin consider these terms to be native. For other body part names possibly borrowed from Northeast Caucasian compare աք (akʻ, “leg”), աթուր (atʻur, “foot”), քիթ (kʻitʻ, “nose”), գանգ (gang, “skull”), կառափն (kaṙapʻn, “skull”).

### Noun

մագիլ • (magil)
* claw, talon
    Synonyms: ճիրան (čiran), ճանկ (čank)
    երկաթի մագիլք ― erkatʻi magilkʻ ― torturing hooks
    ըմբռնել մագլօք ― əmbṙnel maglōkʻ ― to seize with the claws or talons, to clutch, to grapple, to grasp, to hook

#### Derived terms

* բազմամագիլ (bazmamagil)
* երկայնամագիլ (erkaynamagil)
* լիամագիլ (liamagil)
* կորամագիլ (koramagil)
* հաստամագիլ (hastamagil)
* մագլաւոր (maglawor)
* մագլեմ (maglem)
* մագլցեմ (maglcʻem)
* մագլցտեմ (maglcʻtem)
* մաքլեմ (makʻlem)

#### Descendants

* Middle Armenian: մաքիլ (makʻil)
* → Armenian: մագիլ (magil) (learned)

### References

* ↑ 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 453
* ↑ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 255, 464, 715
* ↑ Tomaschek, Wilhelm (1883) “Review of Hübschmann 1883”, in Deutsche Litteraturzeitung (in German), volume IV, number 36, Berlin, columns 1253–1254
* ↑ Bugge, Sophus (1889) “Beiträge zur etymologischen Erläuterung der armenischen Sprache”, in Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-selskabet i Christiania (in German), No. 4, Christiania, page 35
* ↑ Bugge, Sophus (1893) “Beiträge zur etymologischen Erläuterung der armenischen Sprache”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung (in German), volume 32, page 85
* ↑ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 471
* ↑ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մագիլ”, 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, pages 219–220
* ↑ Xajdakov, S. M. (1973) Сравнительно-сопоставительный словарь дагестанских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Dagestan Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 39
* ↑ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 609
* ↑ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “մագիլ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 499a
* ↑ Saidova, P. A. (1999) “малъ”, in Диалектологический словарь аварского языка [Dialectological dictionary of Avar] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 245b, without the Armenian
* ↑ Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*mɦǟƛă (~-ǝ̆)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

### Further reading

* 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
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մագիլ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy