գետ

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• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɡet/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ked/,

From Old Armenian գետ (get).

գետ • (get)

1. river

From Old Armenian գէտ (gēt).

գետ • (get) (traditional orthography spelling գէտ, superlative ամենագետ)

1. (rare) knowing, having the knowledge

From Proto-Indo-European *wed-os-, from *wed- (“water”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὕδος (húdos, “water”), Sanskrit उत्स (útsa, “spring, fountain”). Related to Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥.

գետ • (get)

1. river
   • 7th century, Anania Širakacʻi, Yałags harcʻman ew lucman 7:

     եւ երթեալ յեզր գետոյն, որու Ախուրեանն կոչեն

     ew ertʻeal yezr getoyn, oru Axureann kočʻen

     and I went to the shore of the river, which they call Axurean

• Armenian: գետ (get)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գետ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “գետ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գետ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) A Grammatical Sketch of Classical Armenian‎, Zagreb, page 18
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 205