գօտի

Old Armenian

Uncertain. The original spelling is գաւտի (gawti). Olsen derives from Iranian *gaβtia, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to hold”), connecting also with the ending of պարեգաւտ (paregawt, “coat, tunic”),^[1]^[2] but this root is not attested in Iranian. J̌ahukyan compares to Old Georgian ღუედი (ɣuedi).^[3]

գօտի • (gōti)

girdle, belt
գօտի ածել, գօտի ընդ մէջ ածել ― gōti acel, gōti ənd mēǰ acel ― to gird, to tie or to draw close round the body; to be prompt
(astrology) belt of the sky
(geography) zone
այրեցած գօտի ― ayrecʻac gōti ― torrid zone

բարեխառն գօտի ― barexaṙn gōti ― temperate zone

սառուցեալ գօտի ― saṙucʻeal gōti ― glacial zone
(figuratively) rainbow; mountain ridge; a corridor in a palace
գօտի լերանց ― gōti lerancʻ ― chain of mountains

գօտի աստուածական, տէրունեան, Արամազդայ ― gōti astuacakan, tērunean, Aramazday ― rainbow

The word has five combining forms: գօտի- (gōti-), գօտե- (gōte-), գօտէ- (gōtē-), գօտեւ- (gōtew-) and գօտել- (gōtel-)

^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 874
^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (2017 July 26) “Armenian Textile Terminology”, in Gaspa, Salvatore, Michel, Cécile, Nosch, Marie-Louise, editors, Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD‎^[1], Lincoln, Nebraska: Zea Books, →DOI, →ISBN, page 196
^ Джаукян, Г. Б. (1967) Взаимоотношение индоевропейских, хурритско-урартских и кавказских языков [The interrelationship of Indo-European, Hurro-Urartian and Caucasian languages] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 97, 188