գիւղ

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Old Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

The origin is uncertain. The older spelling is either գեւղ (gewł) or գեղ (geł). Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (to crowd together) with a semantic shift ‘crowd’ → ‘village’ and cognate with Ancient Greek εἰλέω (eiléō, to assemble), ἁλία (halía, assembly of people); the nominative would be from Proto-Indo-European *wél-ōy, the genitive գեղջ (gełǰ) from Proto-Indo-European *wel-y-ós.

Ačaṙean explains the genitive-dative գեղջ (gełǰ) by contraction from *գեւեղ (*geweł), the supposed regular genitive-dative of r-type գեւղ (gewł), with the addition of the “augmentative genitive-dative marker” (). See also ալիւր (aliwr), -ոջ (-oǰ).

Noun

գիւղ (giwł)

  1. village; country
    գնալ, բնակել ի գիւղgnal, bnakel i giwłto go to or live in the country

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Armenian: գյուղ (gyuġ)

References

  • Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1944) “Haykakankʻ A [Armeniaca I]”, in HSSṘ GA Teġekagir hasarakakan gitutʻyunneri [Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR: Social Sciences]‎ (in Armenian), number 5, page 29 of 25–30
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “Haykakankʻ (Armeniaca)”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 628a
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գիւղ”, 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) “գիւղ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 217
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գիւղ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy