greedy for money or property, avaricious, covetous · insatiable for food
eş: ҡомһоҙ
köken: From Middle Mongol *qomaqai (“greedy, hungry”), see Mongolian хомхой (xomxoj, “greedy”). Cognate with Kazakh қомағай (qomağai, “greedy”); perhaps also related to South Altay коомой (koomoy, “bad”), Khakas хомай (xomay, “bad”).
greedy (having greed; consumed by selfish desires) · eager (to have something)
çekim: karşılaştırma girigare · üstünlük girigast
köken: From Old Swedish girugher, gerogher (compare Norwegian girug), to an earlier Old East Norse *girugr ← *girugʀ, potentially to a Proto-Norse *ᚷᛁᚱᚢᚷᚨᛉ (*girugaʀ); in root akin to *girį̄ + *-gaz; via pattern from Old Danish girig, Middle Low German gerich, Old High German girig (compare German gierig). First recorded in the 13th century Westrogothic law (Westgöta-Lagen). Related to Old Swedish giri…
köken: Uncertain. Traditionally connected with dialectal ahku (“eagerness, zeal”), but this word is likewise of unknown origin. According to Häkkinen (2004), which follows Nikkilä (1998), perhaps a borrowing from dialectal Swedish ager (“hard-working”), but this sense for the word, supposedly found only in dialects within Finland, does not seem to have a particularly wide distribution nor even be the…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-eh₁yeti Latin aveō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin avidus From aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”) + -idus.
çekim: karşılaştırma grådigere · üstünlük grådigst
köken: From Old Norse gráðugr, from Proto-Germanic *grēdagaz, cognate with English greedy, Dutch graag (“gladly”). Derived from the noun *grēduz (“desire”).