բայ

Armenian

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Etymology 1

From Old Armenian բայ (bay); see it for more.

Noun

բայ • (bay)

1. (grammar) verb

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Armenian բայ (bay); see it for more.

Noun

բայ • (bay)

1. lair

Declension

Old Armenian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-ti-, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”); cognate with Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis), φάτις (phátis, “declaration, enunciation, rumour”).

Noun

բայ • (bay)

2. speech, discourse
3. word
4. (grammar) verb

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Armenian: բայ (bay)

References

Further reading

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բայ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բայ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy

Etymology 2

Verb

բայ • (bay)

2. third-person singular present active indicative of բամ (bam)

Etymology 3

Ačaṙean does not record an acceptable etymology.

Ałayan derives from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to be”), connecting the word with Old Irish both (“hut, bothy, cot; cabin”), Welsh bod (“dwelling”), Lithuanian bùtas (“house”). J̌ahukyan, developing this, writes that the Indo-European proto-form for Armenian may have been *bʰweH-t- and the closest cognate—Albanian botë. Martirosyan remarks that not all the formal details are clear. For the semantic field, he compares the etymologically cognate բոյն (boyn, “nest; den, lair; hut”).

Alternative forms

• բահ (bah) — post-Classical

Noun

բայ • (bay)

2. den, lair (especially of a bear)

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Armenian: բայ (bay)

References

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բայ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բայ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 402b
• Aġayan, Ēduard (1974) Baṙakʻnnakan ew stugabanakan hetazotutʻyunner [Lexicological and Etymological Studies]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 35–36
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 116, 160
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “bay₂”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 165–166