էսի

Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From էս (ēs), dialectal development of Old Armenian այս (ays, “this”), and the suffix -իկ (-ik), with the final consonant cut off. For the development, compare էտի (ēti), էնի (ēni), and especially the declension of հիմա (hima).

Pronunciation edit

(Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): /eˈsi/ [eˈsi] invalid IPA characters (//[])

Pronoun edit

էսի • (ēsi)

(dialectal) Synonym of սա (sa)

References edit

Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “հեմ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 79