ܙܺܝܘܰܓ zywg ziwaḡ mercury, quicksilver
Allotropes: ܙܝܘܓܐ zywgʾ; ܙܝܘܩ zywq. Reborrowing: ܙܝܒܩܐ zybqʾ
MP *zīwag, from the same root as the vb. zīwistan, zīw- to live (CPD 99); NP īva quicksilver, mercury (Steingass 637), and ǰīwa id. (ibid. 383); Arab. zībaq; Arm. LW ipak mercury (Hübschmann AG 267, no. 55: late loanword in Armenian, from NP or Arab.). The Syr. forms zywg and zywgʾ are loanwords from MP, whereas Syr. zybqʾ, together with Arm. ipak, seems to be a later loanword from the Arabized form of the Pers. word ● zywg Duv B 2, 4, 2 and 8; Kays 218, 6; BB 300, 8; zywgʾ Duv B 2, 45, 22; zybqʾ Duv B 2, 39, 15; zywq Duv B 2, 46, 2 ◆ LS 191b, 188a; Lagarde GA 43, 109; PS Suppl. 109; 110; Duval index pers. 219