փեսայ

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Old Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Considered a word of unknown origin.[1][2][3][4]

Most words ending in -այ (-ay) are Aramaic / Syriac borrowings. Perhaps փեսայ (pʿesay) is borrowed from an unidentified formation meaning "persuader, wooer, suitor" or "one who has won over [the bride]" from the Aramaic / Classical Syriac verb פיס (pys) / ܦܝܣ (pys, to persuade, to convince, to win over; to beseech, to plea). Compare from that verb: Classical Syriac ܦܝܣܐ (pəyāsā, persuading), ܡܦܝܣܢܐ (məp̄īsānā, entreater; persuader). See CAL and the Sureth Dictionary for more on this root, without the Armenian.[5][6] The Aramaic itself is borrowed from Ancient Greek πεῖσαι (peîsai), the aorist active infinitive of πείθω (peíthō, to convince, persuade; to succeed through entreaty).

Noun[edit]

փեսայ (pʿesay)

  1. bridegroom, groom
  2. son-in-law
  3. brother-in-law (sister's husband)

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: փեսա (pʿesa)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “փեսայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 497
  2. ^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 946
  3. ^ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “փեսայ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 763a
  4. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 651
  5. ^ pys”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  6. ^ ܦܝܣ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, accessed 2021-03-06

Further reading[edit]

  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “փեսայ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Holst, Jan Henrik (2009) Armenische Studien (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 193, follows Winter
  • Müller, Friedrich (1896), “Armeniaca. — Zu Mīnōīg Chrat II, 37”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 10, page 355 of 349-356, derives from an unattested Classical Syriac *paisā, from Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs, child, son, young person)
  • Petrosean, Matatʿeay (1879), “փեսայ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Winter, Werner (1966), “Traces of early dialectal diversity in Old Armenian”, in H. Birnbaum, J. Puhvel, editors, Ancient Indo-European Dialects: proceedings of the Conference on Indo-European linguistics held at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1963, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →DOI, pages 203–205, derives from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (to ask), the source of հարսն (harsn, bride)