բայ

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [bɑj]

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

բայ • (bay)

1. (grammar) verb

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

բայ • (bay)

1. lair

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-ti-, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”); cognate with Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis), φάτις (phátis, “declaration, enunciation, rumour”).[1][2][3][4]

բայ • (bay)

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

• Armenian: բայ (bay)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “բայ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “բայ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy

բայ • (bay)

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

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”).

• բահ (bah) – post-classical

բայ • (bay)

1. den, lair (especially of a bear)

• Armenian: բայ (bay)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “բայ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “բայ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 402b
• Ałayan, Ēduard (1974) Baṙakʿnnakan ew stugabanakan hetazotutʿyunner [Lexicological and Etymological Studies] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 35–36
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; 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, Boston: Brill, pages 165–166