Where does “Գադես” come from?
Գադես (Armenian) comes from Russian Га́дес, from Ancient Greek ᾍδης, from Proto-Indo-European n̥-, from Proto-Indo-European ne — not.
Ancestry of “Գադես”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Russian | Га́дес | — |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | ᾍδης | — |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | n̥- | not, un- |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ne | not |