گیج
Persian edit
Alternative forms edit
- کیج (kij)
Etymology edit
Cognate with Bakhtiari گێز (gız, “mad”), Northern Luri گێژ (gıj, “mad”), Dezfuli [script needed] (geyz, “dizzy; confused”), Northern Kurdish gêj (“dizzy”), Sogdian [script needed] (kyc /kēč/). Compare also the Iranian borrowings: Middle Armenian գիժ (giž), Middle Georgian გიჟი (giži, “crazy, mad; foolish”), Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܓܫ̰ܘܢܐ (gežūnē), Udi ҝиж (gʲiž).
The Persian is probably borrowed from a Northwestern Iranian language, rather than inherited.
Adjective edit
گیج • (gij)
Descendants edit
- → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܵܝܸܓ̰ (gāyij)
Further reading edit
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գիժ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 554b
- Asatrian, Garnik (2011) A Comparative Vocabulary of Central Iranian Dialects[1] (in Persian), Tehran: Safir Ardehal Publications, page 160