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No etymology can be suggested.

From Greek παράδειξις “proof, establishment” (Liddell–Scott 1308).

Corresponds to late Old Persian {p-r-d-y-d-a-} (A²Sd 3), reconstructed as *pardēd(a)- < *paridaida- “lustschloss, garden palace” (WAK 225) (EDA I 350).

From Sum. barĝal(a) <(a sheep with) unplucked fleece> (see PSD B 101 {bar} A mng. 4.3.5; ibid., 122b). The correspondence Sum. b ~ Akk. p suggests an early loanword

From Hurrian *pargulli with the nomen professionis suffix -o/u-ġ(e)-o/u-li. The hypothetical *pargulli, not attested in Hurrian texts, is a loanword from Akkadian parkullu “seal-cutter”. Limited attestation and lack of morphological Akkadization suggest that pargullo/uġo/uli was not a deeply rooted loanword in Akkadian.

Since almost all the references to parīsu come from Western areas (Mari, Alalakh, Carchemish, Emar, Boghazköy), it is reasonable to surmise that we are dealing with a “Western” lexical feature (Westenholz 2000:xiv, with additional references). Derivation from *prs ‘to cut, to divide’ in West Semitic is feasible both semantically and morphologically.

One cannot exclude a relationship between the Akkadian word and WS designations of ‘cover, curtain, carpet’ going back to the verbal root *prŝ ‘to spread’.