Armenian

Noun

գի • ‎(gi)

1. Synonym of գիհի ‎(gihi)
2. (dialectal) cypress

Declension

Old Armenian

Etymology

Since Lidén derived from Proto-Indo-European *wey(H)- ‎(“to twine, weave, wind”) (the reconstruction of the root is disputed), because of juniper's flexible branches used in plaiting or weaving, extended with *-t- or *-s-. See the cognates in *wéh₁itis.

Georgian ღვია ‎(ɣvia, “juniper”) is borrowed from Proto-Armenian.

The Proto-Indo-European form from which գի ‎(gi) is descended has been variously reconstructed as *wītā ‎(“willow”) (Ačaṙean, who also asks whether the Georgian borrowing ღვია ‎(ɣvia) preserves the final -ā), *wey(H)-t- (Martirosyan), *wī̆so- or *weyso- or *woyso- from *wey-s- ‎(“to twist, wind around”) (Lidén, Pokorny, Mallory/Adams).

Noun

գի • ‎(gi)

1. juniper (tree)
2. juniper (wood)

Declension

Derived terms

• գիհի ‎(gihi)

Descendants

• Armenian:

  գի ‎(gi) (literary)

  գՙէ ‎(gʿē) Zeitun

  գՙի ‎(gʿi, “cypress”) Pingyan (village in the kaza of Eğin)

  From *գիհենի ‎(*giheni), with the botanical suffix -ենի ‎(-eni):

  կէ՛նի ‎(kḗni) Lori

  կէ՛նէ ‎(kḗnē) Karabakh

  իգէ՛նէ ‎(igḗnē) Karadagh

• Georgian: გია ‎(gia)

References

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “գի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 119
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “գի”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Łazarean, Ṙ. S. (2000), “գի”, in Tʿosunean G. B., editor, Grabari baṙaran [Dictionary of Old Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: University Press
• Lidén, Evald (1905–1906), “Baumnamen und Verwandtes”, in Indogermanische Forschungen (in German), volume 18, pages 494–498
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “գի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 554ab
• Ačaṙyan, Hračʿya (1944), “Haykakankʿ A [Armeniaca I]”, in Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR: Social Sciences (in Armenian), volume 5, pages 27–28
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “Haykakankʿ (Armeniaca)”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 627
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), “²ueis-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1133
• Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q., editors (1997) Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 644a
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 212