կախց

Armenian

Alternative forms

կախս (kaxs)

Etymology

Perhaps a dialectal archaism, inherited from Old Armenian *կաղց (*kałcʻ), a supposed parallel form of Old Armenian կաթն (katʻn).^[1]^[2] See it for more.

Alternatively, simply a reshaping of standard կաթ (katʻ) under the influence of քաղցր (kʻaġcʻr, “sweet”): compare Danish sødmælk (“whole milk”, literally “sweet milk”).^[3] For the association "sweet" ~ "milk" compare also Persian (širin, “sweet”) beside (šir, “milk”), Proto-Turkic *sǖčig (“sweet”) beside *sǖt (“milk”), Albanian tambël (“milk”) beside ëmbël (“sweet”).

Noun

կախց • (kaxcʻ)

(dialectal) milk
Synonym: կաթ (katʻ)

References

^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կաթն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 481ab
^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 345
^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (2011) “Review of Martirosyan 2010”, in Kratylos, volume 56, →DOI, page 24 of 14–30

[1] Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կաթն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 481ab

[2] Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 345

[3] Olsen, Birgit Anette (2011) “Review of Martirosyan 2010”, in Kratylos, volume 56, →DOI, page 24 of 14–30

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