գոյ

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Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian գոյ (goy).

Pronunciation

Noun

գոյ (goy) (rare)

  1. being, existence, substance

Declension

Derived terms

Old Armenian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-.

Noun

գոյ (goy)

  1. being, existence, substance
    ըստ գոյին, գոյիւ, գոյիւ իւրով, գոյիւ չափəst goyin, goyiw, goyiw iwrov, goyiw čʻapʻas much as his means or property allow, as much as he had; entirely, completely
    ի գոյ ածելi goy acelto create, to cause to exist
  2. God
  3. (usually in the plural) goods, property
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Armenian: գոյ (goy), գույք (guykʻ)

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)

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of գոմ (gom)