Reconstruction:Old Median/ganǰam

This Old Median entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Median

Etymology

Uncertain, though cognate with Parthian 𐫃𐫗𐫉 (gnz /⁠ganǰ⁠/), 𐫃𐫉𐫗 (gzn /⁠gaǰn⁠/, “treasure”), Khwarezmian γzdk (“rich”), Digor Ossetian гъӕздӕ (ǧæzdæ, “wealth”), Sogdian γzn (“treasure”), Wakhi [script needed] (ɣ̌anʓ), Munji [script needed] (γónʓo, “pantry”), Persian غزنه (“Ghazni”), Sanglechi [script needed] (yåzd). See also Arabic خَزِينَة (ḵazīna, “treasury”) apparently from a cognate Iranian stock.

Noun

*ganǰam n

1. treasure, wealth

Derived terms

• *ganǰabarah

Descendants

• Middle Median: *ganǰ
  • Kermanic:
    • Jowshaqani: [script needed] (ganj)
  • → Old Armenian: գանձ (ganj)
    • Armenian: գանձ (ganj)
    • → Old Georgian: განძი (ganʒi)
      • Georgian: განძი (ganʒi)
    • → Mingrelian: განძი (ganʒi)
  • → Hebrew: גְּנָזִים (gənāzī́m)
  • → Middle Persian: (/⁠ganǰ⁠/)

    Manichaean script: 𐫃𐫗𐫉 (gnz)

    Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (gnc)

    • Bakhtiari: [script needed] (gänǰ)
    • Classical Persian: گنج (ganj)
      • Persian: گنج (ganj)
      • Tajik: ганҷ (ganj)
      • Kurdish:

        → Northern Kurdish: genc

        → Central Kurdish: گەنج (genc)

      • → Bengali: গঞ্জ (gonj)
      • → Hindi: गंज (gañj)
    • → Ancient Greek: γάζα (gáza)
      • → Latin: gaza
• → Akkadian:

  Late Babylonian: 𒋡𒀭𒍝 (ka₄-an-za /⁠kanza⁠/), 𒋡𒅔𒍝𒌝 (ka₄-in-za-um /⁠kainzaum⁠/), 𒃷𒍝𒌝 (kán-za-um /⁠kanzaum⁠/)

• → Aramaic:

  Imperial Aramaic: 𐡂𐡍𐡆𐡀 (gnzʾ /⁠ganzā⁠/)

  • Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: גַּזּא (gazzā), גּיזָּא (gizzā)
  • Classical Syriac: ܓܙܐ (gazzā), ܓܢܙܐ (ganzā)
  • Mandaic: ࡂࡉࡍࡆࡀ (ginza)
  • → Arabic: كَنْز (kanz)
    • Kurdish:

      → Northern Kurdish: kenz

    • → Portuguese: alcanzia
    • → Spanish: alcancía
      • → Cebuano: alkansiya
      • → Hiligaynon: alkansiya
      • → Maranao: alkansiya
      • → Tagalog: alkansiya
      • → Tausug: alkansiya
      • → Yakan: alkansiya
• → Hungarian: kincs
  • → Serbo-Croatian: kȉnč / ки̏нч
  • → Slovene: kȋnč

Further reading

• Abajev, V. I. (1973) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 302—303
• Schmitt, Rüdiger, editor (1989), Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum‎^[2], Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 194