գիլ

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɡil/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /kil/,

From Old Armenian գիլ (gil); see it for more.

գիլ • (gil)

1. stone for throwing

From Persian گل (gel, “clay”).

գիլ • (gil)

1. (dialectal) a kind of sticky, clayey substance which serves as soap

• Aġayan, Ēduard (1976) “գիլ”, in Ardi hayereni bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan
• Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “գիլ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 212

• գիղ (gił)

From Proto-Indo-European *wēlH-, from *welH- (“to turn, wind”), whence also գելում (gelum). For the sense "stone for throwing" compare especially Ancient Greek ὅλμος (hólmos, “round, smooth stone”), Russian валу́н (valún, “boulder”), from the same source.

գիլ • (gil)

1. stone for throwing

• գլաջարդ (glaǰard)

գիլ • (gil)

1. rolling

   ի գիլ գալ ― i gil gal ― to roll (intransitive)

   ի գիլ հանել ― i gil hanel ― to roll (transitive)

• Armenian: գիլ (gil)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գիլ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “գիլ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գիլ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գել”, 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 212