Bibliotheca Polyglotta

▪ According to DRS 2 (1994) #GDD, the many values they group under #GDD-1 »semblent toutes fondées sur la notion générale ‘couper, inciser, etc.« [see ↗^†ǦDː (ǦDD)_7 in EtymArab]. This would include also ǧidd and related items signifying ‘greatness, seriousness, majesty’ (as < *‘making a “cutting, decisive” difference, standing out’?). – In contrast, Kogan2015: 33 #59 n.64 thinks that »[t]here is hardly any immediate connection betw. *‘to cut, cut off’ [and] *‘to be great; serious’ […].«
▪ Dependent on ‘greatness, seriousness, majesty’ is perh. ↗¹ǧadd ‘grandfather’ (*‘the great, serious one, “his majesty”’; cf. also below, section HIST) (but other etymologies have been suggested).
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hist

▪ Lane ii 1865: ǧadda fī ʕaynī, fī ʕuyūn al-nās, fī ṣudūrihim ‘he was, or became, great, or of great dignity or estimation, in my eye, or in the eyes of men, and their minds’; ^†ǧadda (i, u, ǧidd) fī ‘to endeavour to, exert o.s. in, acquire credit (amongst)’
▪ Hava1899: ^†ǧadda ‘to be respectable, important (man); to be serious, grievous (affair)’
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cogn

▪ DRS 2 (1994) #GDD-1 Akk gadādu ‘découdre? taillader?’; Hbr *hitgōded ‘se faire des incisions’; nHbr gādad ‘couper, inciser’; Aram gᵊdad ‘couper autour, rogner’; Talm ‘couper, partager’; Syr gadd ‘amputer, retrancher’; Mnd ʕgadad ‘être coupé, raccourci’; Qat šgdd ‘répartir, accorder’; Ar ǧadda ‘couper, retrancher’; Ar ǧudd ‘puits intermittent’, ǧadda ‘être décidé, paraître sérieux (événement, fait)’, ǧidd ‘zèle, effort’; SAr gdd ‘grand’, Sab hgdd ‘magnifier’; Gz gədud ‘sérieux’; Te gäddä ‘être plus grand, surpasser, étonner’, gäddo, gado, Tña gado, Amh (way)gud: interj. admirative ‘oh! étonnant!’. […]. -2-7 […].
▪ Zammit2002, Kogan2015: 33 #59 n.64: Aram gaddā ‘genius, godhead’, SAr(Sab) gdd ‘great’, Ar ǧadd ‘majesty, glory’, ǧadda ‘to be great; to be serious’, Gz gədud ‘serious, severe’, geddat ‘vehementia, gravitas’.
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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deriv

►^BP#171ǧiddan, adv., very, much
►bi-ǧidd, and min ǧidd, adv., earnestly, seriously;
►ǧiddᵘ bāhiẓⁱⁿ, n., very high (price);
►ǧiddᵘ ʕaẓīmⁱⁿ, adj., very great;
►yaḫtalifūnᵃ ǧiddᵃ l-ĭḫtilāf, expr., they differ widely;
►waqafa ʕalà sāq al-ǧidd li-, vb., to apply o.s. with diligence to, take pains in, make every effort to

►ǧadda, i, vb. I, 1-4 ↗ǧadda; 5 to be or become serious, grave; 6 to be weighty, significant, important; 7 to take (fī s.th.) seriously; 8 to strive earnestly (fī for), go out of one’s way (fī to do s.th.), make every effort (fī in); 9 to be serious, be in earnest (fī about), mean business; 10 to hurry (fī one’s step)
►ʔaǧadda, vb. IV, 1 to strive, endeavor, take pains; 2 to apply o.s. earnestly and assiduously (fī to), be bent, be intent (fī on s.th.); 3 to hurry (fī one’s step); 4 ↗ǧadda: *Š-stem, applicative

►^BP#2505ǧiddī, adj., 1a serious; b earnest; c ǧiddiyyan, adv., in earnest, earnestly, seriously: nsb-formation
►^BP#2627ǧiddiyyaẗ, n.f., 1a earnestness; b seriousness, gravity (of a situation): abstr. formation in ‑iyyaẗ
►ʔaǧaddᵘ, adj., 1 more serious, more intent; 2 ↗ǧadda: elat. formation
►^BP#1808ǧādd, adj., 1 in earnest, earnest; 2 serious (as opposed to comic, funny): PA I
►muǧidd, adj., painstaking, diligent, assiduous: PA IV

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗¹ǧadd, ↗²ǧadd, ↗ǧadda, ↗Ǧuddaẗᵘ, and ↗ǧāddaẗ as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ǦDː(ǦDD).

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