ագի

From Old Armenian ագի (agi).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑˈɡi/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑˈki/,

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• Hyphenation: ա‧գի

ագի • (agi)

1. (archaic) tail
2. (archaic) lap of women’s dress

• պոչ (počʻ)

• ագեվազ (agevaz)

• Aġayan, Ēduard (1976) “ագի”, in Ardi hayereni bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan

Martirosyan reconstructs the earlier form as *հագի (*hagi) with the basic meaning of “edge”, connects the word with հաւ (haw, “beginning”) and derives both from Proto-Indo-European *p(e)h₂w-.

ագի • (agi)

1. tail

The unattested sense “penis” is proven by ագ-ատ (ag-at, “whose penis is cut off”)

vow=on

• տուտն (tutn), ձետ (jet)

• Armenian: ագի (agi)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ագի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ագի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ագի”, 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) “agi”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 5