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Armenian
Etymology
From Old Armenian վայ (vay). The adverbial usage is a semantic loan from Russian го́ре (góre).
Pronunciation
Interjection
վայ • (vay)
- cry of distress, woe!; cry of negative amazement
- Վայ, ի՞նչ արեց։ ― Vay, i?nčʻ arecʻ. ― Oh my, what did he do?
Noun
վայ • (vay)
- a cry of distress, pain or grief, wail
- (figuratively) woe, sorrow
- (figuratively) misfortune, disaster, calamity
- Այս ի՜նչ վայ էր, որ եկավ մեր գլխին ― Ays i!nčʻ vay ēr, or ekav mer glxin ― Oh, what misfortune that befell us!
Declension
Adverb
վայ • (vay)
- placed before a word to express one's view that something or someone is not worthy of being called as such; so-called, poor excuse for
- վայ-գիտնականներ ― vay-gitnakanner ― so-called scientists
- վայ-քննադատ ― vay-kʻnnadat ― criticaster
Old Armenian
Etymology
Borrowed from Parthian 𐫇𐫀𐫏 (wʾy /wāy/) or Middle Persian 𐫇𐫀𐫏 (wʾy /wāy/, “woe, woe to!”) (whence Persian وای (vây)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy. The attempts to treat վայ (vay) as an inheritance from Proto-Indo-European *wáy are unnecessary and irregular, as word-initial prevocalic *w- yields գ- (g-) in Armenian: compare գայլ (gayl), գառն (gaṙn), գետ (get) etc, whereas the Iranian borrowing is perfectly regular.[1]
Interjection
վայ • (vay)
- cry of distress, woe! alas! oh! ah!
- վա՛յ քեզ ― váy kʻez ― woe to you!
- վա՛յ ինձ, վա՛յ զիս, վա՛յ զինեւ ― váy inj, váy zis, váy zinew ― woe is me! how unhappy I am!
- վա՛յ քաղաքդ մեծ ― váy kʻałakʻd mec ― woe! woe to the great city!
Noun
վայ • (vay)
- woe, cry of pain or grief, lament, wail, moans
- վայ զվայիւ աղաղակել, ճիչել ― vay zvayiw ałałakel, čičʻel ― to cry bitterly, to wail, to lament aloud, to deplore, to complain
- արդարեւ վայի են արժանի ― ardarew vayi en aržani ― they are truly unhappy
- disaster, calamity, misfortune
- վայ կարդալ անձին ― vay kardal anjin ― to create misfortunes for oneself
Declension
o-type
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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վայ (vay)
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վայք (vaykʻ)
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| genitive
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վայոյ (vayoy)
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վայոց (vayocʻ)
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| dative
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վայոյ (vayoy)
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վայոց (vayocʻ)
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| accusative
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վայ (vay)
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վայս (vays)
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| ablative
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վայոյ (vayoy)
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վայոց (vayocʻ)
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| instrumental
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վայով (vayov)
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վայովք (vayovkʻ)
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| locative
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վայ (vay)
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վայս (vays)
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Derived terms
References
- ^ Bolognesi, Giancarlo (2009) R. B. Finazzi, P. Fontani, A. Scala, P. Tornaghi, editors, Storia della linguistica e linguistica storica, Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, pages 299–303
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “վայ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “վայ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
Further reading
More information
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 197
- 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, pages 34, 787
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 1110–1111