սկայ

Old Armenian

The origin is uncertain.^[1] Probably borrowed from a Middle Iranian descendant of Proto-Indo-Iranian *káwHiš, with the augmentative prefix ս- (s-).^[2]^[3] Has also been connected with the Iranian ethnonym Saka.^[4]

սկայ • (skay)

giant
սկայ կին ― skay kin ― giantess

սկայ անարի ― skay anari ― huge giant

^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սկայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 226–227
^ Szemerényi, Oswald (1970) “Iranica III (Nos. 32-43)”, in Mary Boyce, Ilya Gershevitch, editors, W.B. Henning memorial volume, London: Lund Humphries, page 426
^ 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 906
^ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “սկայ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 683a