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: Of unknown origin. McGregor tentatively postulates a combination of कान (kān, “ear”) + चूसना (cūsnā, “to suck”), lit. "ear-sucked"; compare मक्खीचूस (makkhīcūs, “miser”, literally “fly-sucker”) for a similar formation.
inflection of avārus: · nominative/accusative neuter plural
köken: Possibly an old hydronym from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”), found in cognates such as Sanskrit वार् (vār, “water, pond”), Latin urina, Lithuanian virti (“to seethe, boil, flow”), Old Norse vari (“water”). One of the river's tributaries, Auron, could be a suffixed form of this root *aver-on-.
köken: Derived from Ancient Greek στῡ́φω (stū́phō, “to be harsh, astringent”) + -ца (-ca). Compare the adjective Ancient Greek στυπτῐκός (stuptĭkós, “astringent”).