Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian գոյ (goy).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

գոյ (goy) (rare)

  1. being, existence, substance

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Old Armenian edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-.

Noun edit

գոյ (goy)

  1. being, existence, substance
    ըստ գոյին, գոյիւ, գոյիւ իւրով, գոյիւ չափəst goyin, goyiw, goyiw iwrov, goyiw čʻapʻas much as his means or property allow, as much as he had; entirely, completely
    ի գոյ ածելi goy acelto create, to cause to exist
  2. God
  3. (usually in the plural) goods, property
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Armenian: գոյ (goy), գույք (guykʻ)

References edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գոյ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “գոյ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գոյ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 221

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

գոյ (goy)

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of գոմ (gom)