գիւղ

Etymology
The origin is. The older spelling is either or. Perhaps from with a semantic shift ‘crowd’ → ‘village’ and cognate with Ancient Greek, ; the nominative would be from , the genitive  from.

Ačaṙean explains the genitive-dative by contraction from, the supposed regular genitive-dative of r-type , with the addition of the “augmentative genitive-dative marker”. See also,.

Noun

 * 1) village; country