գոգեմ

Old Armenian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁wogʷʰ-eye-ti, from *h₁wegʷʰ- (“to promise, to praise”).

Verb

գոգեմ • (gogem)

1. to say

   գոգ, գոգցես, գոգցես թէ, գոգցես իմն ― gog, gogcʻes, gogcʻes tʻē, gogcʻes imn ― well, as, about, almost, nearly

Usage notes

Only some fossilized forms of this verb survive, and the surviving forms are usually used as adverbs.

Conjugation

Further reading

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գոգ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “գոգ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գոգ”, 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 221

Etymology 2

From գոգ (gog).

Verb

գոգեմ • (gogem)

1. to dig, to hollow
2. to contain, to include

Conjugation

Descendants

• Armenian: գոգել (gogel)

References

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գոգեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “գոգեմ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy