# մուգ
## Armenian
### Alternative forms

* մույգ (muyg) — dated

### Etymology

A dialectal word, that has entered the literary language. Developed regularly from Old Armenian *մոյգ (*moyg) which is included in HHB as an Old Armenian word but whose place of attestation is unknown. Usually said to be inherited from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mowgʰo-, from the root *(s)mewg- (“to smoke”), with such cognates as Lithuanian smáugti, Proto-Slavic *smǫglъ, Proto-Germanic *smeukaną, Proto-West Germanic *smokōn, Old Armenian մուխ (mux).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /mukʰ/, [mukʰ]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /muk/, [mukʰ]

### Adjective

մուգ • (mug) (superlative ամենամուգ)
* (of color) dark, deep
    Antonym: բաց (bacʻ)
    մուգ կապույտ ― mug kapuyt ― dark blue

#### Derived terms

* մգանալ (mganal)
* մգացնել (mgacʻnel)

#### Descendants

* → Georgian: მუქი (muki)

### References

* ↑ Anonymous disciples of Mxitʻar Sebastacʻi (1769) “մոյգ”, in Baṙgirkʻ Haykazean lezui. Mnacʻordkʻ grabaṙ baṙicʻ haykazean lezui [Dictionary of the Armenian Language. The Remainder of Old Armenian Words]‎ (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 212b
* ↑ Diefenbach, Lorenz (1851) “malhstus”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der gothischen Sprache (in German), volume II, Frankfurt am Main: J. Baer, page 15
* ↑ Petersson, Herbert (1916) “Beiträge zur armenischen Wortkunde”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung (in German), volume 47, number 3/4, page 267 of 240–291
* ↑ Walde, Alois (1927) Julius Pokorny, editor, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Berlin: de Gruyter, page 688
* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 971
* ↑ Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 121
* ↑ Džaukjan, G. B. (1967) Очерки по истории дописьменного периода армянского языка [An Outline of the History of the Pre-Literary Period of the Armenian Language]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 171
* ↑ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1972) Hay barbaṙagitutʻyan neracutʻyun [Introduction into Armenian Dialectology]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 299
* ↑ Tumanjan, Eteri (1978) Структура индоевропейских имен в армянском языке: опыт реконструкции [The Structure of Indo-European Substantives in Armenian: Attempt on Reconstruction] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 180
* ↑ Belardi, Walter (2009) Elementi di armeno aureo (Biblioteca di ricerche linguistiche e filologiche; 57.3) (in Italian), volume III, Rome: Il Calamo, page 127

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “մուգ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, marking as a dialectal archaism of unknown origin
* J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1837) “մոյգ”, in Baṙgirkʻ i barbaṙ hay ew italakan [Armenian–Italian Dictionary], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 998b
* Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013) “մօք”, in Ġarabaġi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 531c