գէշ

• գիշ (giš) (post-classical, by back-formation from compounds such as գիշ-ակեր (giš-aker))

The origin is uncertain. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow; poison”), with cognates such as Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬉𐬱𐬀𐬵 (vaēšah, “decay, decomposition”), 𐬬𐬌𐬱- (viš-), 𐬬𐬌𐬱𐬀 (viša, “poison”), Sanskrit विष (viṣa, “poison”), Ancient Greek ἰός (iós), Latin virus. According to J̌ahukyan 2010, a borrowing from the Iranian cognate is more likely than direct inheritance from Proto-Indo-European.

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

գէշ • (gēš)

1. (post-Classical) bad, ill

• Armenian: գեշ (geš)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գէշ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “գէշ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գէշ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “³u̯eis-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1134
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “գէշ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 159b