- gheiĝh-
- gheiĝh-English meaning: to yearn forDeutsche Übersetzung: “begehren, gierig sein”Note: (see also that similar to gheidh-)??Material: O.Ind. jēh- only in jḗ hamüna-ḥ “ gälmend, den Mund aufsperrend, klaffend, lechzend “; perhaps secondary to jíhītē, S. 418; Goth. faihu-geigan “lust, crave”, ga-geigan “ gain “, nasalized O.H.G. gingēn “after etwas verlangen”, gingo “das Verlangen”; after Wissmann nom. postverb. 41 though to ĝhei-gh-, above S. 421. Lith. ãpmaudą giẽžti “ hold a grudge, nurse a grievance “, giežiú os “ long, want violently “, pagiẽžti “ ask for revenge “, pagiežà “ thirst for revenge “; whether Lith. giẽžti, pa-giẽžti intr. “ im Halse kratzen “ would be with it.References: WP. I 552; different Feist 136 f.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.