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Borrowed from Parthian𐫇𐫀𐫏(wʾy/wāy/) or Middle Persian𐫇𐫀𐫏(wʾy/wāy/, “woe, woe to!”) (whence Persianوای(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]
^ 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
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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