ʾmyc

Middle Persian

Etymology

Literally “mixture”, from ʾmyc- (to mix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyḱ- (to mix).

Noun

ʾmyc (āmiz)

  1. a certain dish containing game meat

Usage notes

MacKenzie glosses the word as “side dish, vegetables”, but the attested passage and the descendants point to a meat dish.

References

Taking Middle Persian as representative of all Middle Iranian:

  • → Arabic: آمِص (ʾāmiṣ), عامِص (ʿāmiṣ), أَمِيص (ʾamīṣ, a kind of dish containing cut veal meat tucked into skin and cooked; a kind of liquid derived from buttermilk soup)
  • → Aramaic:
    Classical Syriac: ܐܵܡܨܵܐ (ʾāmṣā, sour food; sliced raw meat)
    Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אָמְצָא, אומצָא (omṣa, a certain dish containing meat)
  • → Old Armenian: ամիճ (amič, a certain dish containing game meat)

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), ամիճ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 157a
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 96
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1895) Persische Studien [Persian Studies] (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 8
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “āmiz”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 8
  • ˀmṣ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Fīrūzābādī (1250 Rumi calendar [=1834 AD]) Al-uqiyānūs al-basīt, volume II, translated from Arabic into Ottoman Turkish by Aḥmad ʻĀṣim, 2nd edition, Constantinople, page 364
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