גד
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Uncertain. Compare Arabic جَدّ (jadd, “luck, good fortune”).
Noun
[edit]גָּד • (gad) m
Proper noun
[edit]גָּד • (gad) m
- a male given name, Gad
Etymology 2
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ג־ד־ד (g-d-d) |
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Found in Punic 𐤂𐤃 (gd /gid/, “coriander”), Ugaritic 𐎂𐎄 (gd, “coriander”), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic גַּד (gaḏ), גּׅידא (giḏā, “coriander”). The origin is unclear. It could be from the root formula’s meaning related to strips (→ جُدَّة (judda)), because of coriander’s being chopped, but there is a chance it is the same word as Old Armenian գինձ (ginj) and its known Iranian relatives. Less likely the plant name is from the fortune or fortune god word above in consideration of magical uses.
Noun
[edit]גַּד • (gad) m
References
[edit]- Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden[1] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 441–447, but he wants to read the JBA words as “wormwood”, which wouldn’t exclude an etymological relationship since these plants appear very similar; and he thinks the words are geminated instead of with begedkefet.
- “gyd4”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
גד השדה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
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- Hebrew proper nouns
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- Hebrew terms borrowed from Iranian languages
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- he:Celery family plants
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