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 իմնgog, gogcʻes, gogcʻes tʻē, gogcʻes imnwell, 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
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