განძი

From Armenian գանձ (ganj, “treasure”), itself from Middle Persian [Term?] (/ganǰ/, “treasure”), derived from Old Persian. The borrowing is from Armenian because of the /dz/ sound.

• IPA^(key): /ɡandzi/

განძი • (ganʒi) (plural განძები)

1. treasure, buried treasure

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “գանձ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press

From Armenian գանձ (ganj, “treasure”), itself from Middle Persian[Term?] (/ganǰ/, “treasure”), ultimately derived from Old Persian. The borrowing took place via Armenian as attested from the /dz/ sound.

განძი • (ganji)

1. treasure, buried treasure

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “գանձ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Kipšidze, I. (1910), “განძი”, in Grammatika mingrelʹskago (iverskago) jazyka s xrestomatijeju i slovarem [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Materialy po jafetičeskomu jazykoznaniju; 7) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences