ջիլ

From Old Armenian ջիլ (ǰil); see it for more.

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒil]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰil]

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ջիլ • (ǰil)

1. tendon, sinew
2. vein
3. muscle

• աքիլեսյան ջիլ (akʻilesyan ǰil)

• ջիղ (ǰił), ջեղ (ǰeł)

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiHslo-, from *gʷeyH- (“sinew”). Cognates include Latin filum (“thread”), Lithuanian gýsla, Proto-Slavic *žila.

ջիլ • (ǰil)

1. (anatomy) nerve, sinew (the ancients confused the two tissues)
   • 5th century, Bible, Job 40.17:[1]

     Կանգնեաց զտտուն իւր իբրեւ զնոճի, եւ ջիլք իւր զմիմեամբք պատեալ։

     Kangneacʻ zttun iwr ibrew znoči, ew ǰilkʻ iwr zmimeambkʻ pateal.

     • Translation by Claude E. Cox

       It stood up its tail like a cypress, and its sinews have been interwoven.

2. fibre, string; whip
3. (figuratively) nerve, sinews, force, vigour

   լուծանիլ ջղաց ― lucanil ǰłacʻ ― to become enervated

   զջիլս հարկանել ուրուք ― zǰils harkanel urukʻ ― to shock a person's nerves, to frighten, to terrify

   զջիլս հատանել ուրուք ― zǰils hatanel urukʻ ― to hurt a person's nerves, to weaken, to enervate

• In Old Armenian ջիլ (ǰil) and ջիղ (ǰił) meant the same thing.
• In Job, translates Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron).

• Armenian: ջիլ (ǰil), ջիղ (ǰiġ)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ջիլ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ջիլ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ջիլ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) A Grammatical Sketch of Classical Armenian‎, Zagreb, page 9