գին

From Old Armenian գին (gin).

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գին • (gin)

1. price; cost

   բարձր գին ― barjr gin ― high price

   ցածր գին ― cʿacr gin ― low price

   ամեն գնով ― amen gnov ― at any price/cost

   Synonym: արժեք (aržekʿ)

2. value, worth

   Synonym: արժեք (aržekʿ)

• գնել (gnel)
• գնահատել (gnahatel)

From Proto-Indo-European *wesno- (“price”). Cognates include Sanskrit वस्न (vasná, “price”), Middle Persian whʾk' (wahāg, “trading; value”), Persian بها‎ (bahâ, “price, value”), Ancient Greek ὦνος (ônos, “price”), ὠνέομαι (ōnéomai), Latin vēnum (“something for sale”) and Hittite [script needed] (wāš-, “to buy”).

գին • (gin)

1. price; value

   գին հատանել, արկանել ― gin hatanel, arkanel ― to rate, to appreciate, to value, to estimate, to tax, to set a price on a thing

   անարգ գին հատանել ― anarg gin hatanel ― to undervalue

   գնոյ առնուլ, գնոց ստանալ ― gnoy aṙnul, gnocʿ stanal ― to buy, to purchase for money

   գնոյ ըմպել զջուր ― gnoy əmpel zǰur ― to drink water that has cost money

   գնոց գնել ― gnocʿ gnel ― to buy dearly

   բարձրացուցանել զգին ― barjracʿucʿanel zgin ― to raise, to augment the price

   նուազեցուցանել զգին ― nuazecʿucʿanel zgin ― to reduce, to lower the price

   վիճել վասն գնոյ ― vičel vasn gnoy ― to bargain

   սովորական գին ― sovorakan gin ― price-current

   որոշեալ գին ― orošeal gin ― no abatement

   գնելով գնեցից ի քէն գնոց ― gnelov gnecʿicʿ i kʿēn gnocʿ ― I will pay you the price

2. buying, purchasing
3. hiring price (for a ship)

• Armenian: գին (gin)
• → Romani: kinava, quinar

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “գին”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “գին”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “գին”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) A Grammatical Sketch of Classical Armenian‎ (pdf), Zagreb, page 8
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 213