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Armenian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old Armenian գոյ (goy).
Pronunciation
Noun
գոյ • (goy) (rare)
- being, existence, substance
Declension
Derived terms
Old Armenian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-.
Noun
գոյ • (goy)
- being, existence, substance
- ըստ գոյին, գոյիւ, գոյիւ իւրով, գոյիւ չափ ― əst goyin, goyiw, goyiw iwrov, goyiw čʻapʻ ― as much as his means or property allow, as much as he had; entirely, completely
- ի գոյ ածել ― i goy acel ― to create, to cause to exist
- God
- (usually in the plural) goods, property
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գոյ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “գոյ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գոյ”, 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
Verb
գոյ • (goy)
- third-person singular present active indicative of գոմ (gom)