# մոզի
## Armenian
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Armenian մոզի (mozi).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /moˈzi/, [mozí]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /moˈzi/, [mozí]
* Hyphenation: մո‧զի

### Noun

մոզի • (mozi) (dialectal)
* two-year-old calf (male or female)
    Coordinate term: հորթ (hortʻ, “one-year-old calf”)
* (Ghazakh) two-year-old colt of a horse or donkey
* (figuratively) stepson, son of one's wife by a previous marriage

#### Derived terms

* մոզաձագ (mozajag)
* մոզամայր (mozamayr)
* մոզարած (mozarac)
* մոզի անել (mozi anel)
* մոզի-մզուր (mozi-mzur)
* մոզիկ (mozik)

### Descendants

* → Cappadocian Greek: μουζία (mouzía)
* → Udi: мози (mozi)
* ⇒ Armenian: մոզիկ (mozik)
** → Northern Kurdish: mozik

### References

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “մոզի”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 790a
* Amatuni, Sahak (1912) “մոզի”, in Hayocʻ baṙ u ban [Armenian Words and Idioms] (in Armenian), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 486a
* Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2007), “մոզի”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 71b

## Old Armenian
### Etymology

Uncertain. Usually connected with Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos, “young shoot or twig; calf”), μοσχίον (moskhíon, “young calf”) as an isolated Graeco-Armenian lexical isogloss inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mosǵʰ-o- (“young of an animal; young shoot”), but Clackson is sceptical.

### Noun

մոզի • (mozi) (post-Classical)
* calf
** 11th century, Grigor Magistros, Meknutʻiwn Kʻerakanin [Commentary on Grammar] : […] իբրու զարջառն ոչ նշանակեաց զարականն և զիգականն և զչեզոքն, թե ոչ ասեմք եզն և կով և մոզի։ […] Իսկ արջառոցն իգականք՝ կով, եղն, երինջ և այլքն․ իսկ չեզոք, որպիսի մոզի և որ այսպիսիք։[…] ibru zarǰaṙn očʻ nšanakeacʻ zarakann ew zigakann ew zčʻezokʻn, tʻe očʻ asemkʻ ezn ew kov ew mozi. […] Isk arǰaṙocʻn igakankʻ, kov, ełn, erinǰ ew aylkʻn; isk čʻezokʻ, orpisi mozi ew or ayspisikʻ.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Descendants

* Middle Armenian: մոզի (mozi)
** Armenian: մոզի (mozi)
*** → Cappadocian Greek: μουζία (mouzía)
*** → Udi: мози (mozi)
*** ⇒ Armenian: մոզիկ (mozik)
**** → Northern Kurdish: mozik
** →? Old Anatolian Turkish: مزق (mazaq), مزاق (mazaq)
*** Ottoman Turkish: مازاق (mazak)
**** Turkish: mazak, mozak, mozalak, mozu, muzak, moza, mozı, mozik

### References

* ↑ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 475
* ↑ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մոզի”, 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 338ab
* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 750
* ↑ Solta, G. R. (1960) Die Stellung des Armenischen im Kreise der indogermanischen Sprachen (Studien zur armenischen Geschichte; 9)‎ (in German), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 319–320
* ↑ Olsen, B. A., Thorsø, R. (2022) “Armenian”, in Olander, T., editor, The Indo-European Language Family: A Phylogenetic Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 214
* ↑ Clackson, James (1994) The linguistic relationship between Armenian and Greek (Publications of the Philological Society; 30), Oxford, Cambridge: Blackwell, pages 152–154
* ↑ Adonc, N. (1915) Дионисий Фракийский и армянские толкователи [Dionysius Thrax and Armenian commentators] (Bibliotheca Armeno-Georgica; 4), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, pages 240, 241

### Further reading

* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “մոզի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 292b
* Martirosyan, Hrach (2013) “The place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family: the relationship with Greek and Indo-Iranian”, in Journal of Language Relationship‎, number 10, page 115
* Scheftelowitz, J. (1904) “Zur altarmenischen lautgeschichte”, in Beiträge zur kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume 28, pages 300–301, connects with the family of Albanian mëz
* Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, pages 181–183