πέρῠσι,
before a vowel πέρυσιν, Aeolic dialect πέρρυσι [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 29.26 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+], Doric dialect πέρυτι [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 50.19 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: adverb:— a year ago, last year, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 75, 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 76, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1038, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 17.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 327d, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 731, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.98; ἡ π. κωμῳδία 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 378 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡμεῖς ἐσμεν οἱ αὐτοὶ νῦν τε καὶ π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ π. [[ NT.2Cor.8.10 ] NT]. (Cf. Sanskrit parút, Armenian heru, MHG. vert 'last year'.)