(s)meukh-, (s)meug-, (s)meugh-

    (s)meukh-, (s)meug-, (s)meugh-

    English meaning: to smoke, smoke n.

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “rauchen, Rauch”

    Material: Arm. mux, gen. mxoy ‘smoke”; Gk. σμύ̄χω (χ = kh or gh; ἐσμύγην from the g-form) “lasse verschwelen; in langsamem fire consume”; Ir. mūch ‘smoke”, Welsh mwg (with Alternation ū : u), Corn. mok ds., Bret. moug, mog “fire”, moged ‘smoke” (-kh- or -k-); with -g: Gk. σμυγῆναι; Arm. murk, gen. mrkoy ‘sengend” (*smū̆ gro-); O.E. smēocan ‘smoke”, mnl. smieken and smuiken ‘smoke”; Kaus. O.E. smīecan ‘smoke, räuchern”, M.L.G. smōken ‘schmauchen, räuchern, through Rauch ersticken”; O.E. smīec m. ‘smoke”, M.H.G. smouch ‘smoke, haze, mist”; O.E. smoca m. ‘smoke”, smocian ‘smoke, räuchern”; Lith. smáugiu, smáugti “ersticken (originally through smoke), erwũrgen”; perhaps Russ. smúglyj, Clr. smuhɫyj ‘schwarzbraun” (‘smoke-color “); die Bal.-Slav. words at most with gh, whereupon also Arm. moyg “brown, dark” as *smougho- in comparison käme; unclear das relationship to R.C.S. smaglъ “dark, brown”, Russ. smága “flame; smut”, Cz. smahnouti “dehydrate, desiccate, schmachten”.

    References: WP. II 688 f., Vasmer 2, 669 f., 677.