# փեսայ
## Old Armenian
### Etymology

Considered a word of unknown origin.
Most words ending in -այ (-ay) are Aramaic / Syriac borrowings. Perhaps փեսայ (pʻesay) 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. 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

փեսայ • (pʻesay)
* bridegroom, groom
* son-in-law
* brother-in-law (sister's husband)

#### Derived terms

* փեսածու (pʻesacu)
* փեսահրաւէր (pʻesahrawēr)
* փեսայաբար (pʻesayabar)
* փեսայազգեաց (pʻesayazgeacʻ)
* փեսայազգեստ (pʻesayazgest)
* փեսայածին (pʻesayacin)
* փեսայածու (pʻesayacu)
* փեսայածութիւն (pʻesayacutʻiwn)
* փեսայական (pʻesayakan)
* փեսայանամ (pʻesayanam)
* փեսայանման (pʻesayanman)
* փեսայանուէրք (pʻesayanuērkʻ)
* փեսայապէս (pʻesayapēs)
* փեսայարան (pʻesayaran)
* փեսայացուցանեմ (pʻesayacʻucʻanem)
* փեսայիմ (pʻesayim)
* փեսայութիւն (pʻesayutʻiwn)
* փեսայօրէն (pʻesayōrēn)
* փեսաւէր (pʻesawēr)
* փեսեղբայր (pʻesełbayr)

#### Descendants

* Armenian: փեսա (pʻesa)

### References

* ↑ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “փեսայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 497
* ↑ 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
* ↑ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “փեսայ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 763a
* ↑ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 651
* ↑ “pys”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* ↑ “ܦܝܣ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, 2021 March 6 (last accessed)

### Further reading

* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “փեսայ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ 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 descendant of Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs, “child, son, young person”)
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “փեսայ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ 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”)