Old Armenian

Alternative forms

• գիշ ‎(giš) (post-classical, wrongly abstracted away from compounds such as գիշ-ակեր ‎(giš-aker))

Noun

գէշ • ‎(gēš)

1. corpse, carrion, dead body

   գէշ արկանել‎ ― gēš arkanel ― to devour or make beasts eat

2. ripped piece of body

   գէշ գէշ պատառիլ‎ ― gēš gēš pataṙil ― to be torn into pieces

3. (by extension) a piece of anything broken, a splinter, fragment

Declension

Adjective

գէշ • ‎(gēš)

1. (post-classical) bad, ill

Derived terms

Descendants

• Armenian: գեշ ‎(geš)

References

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “գէշ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “գէշ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “գէշ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), “³u̯eis-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1134
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “գէշ”, in Sargsyan, Vahan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, ISBN 978-9939-50-121-5, page 159b