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See also: ե, Ե, and -ե

Old Armenian

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Alternative forms

  • է- (ē-) (before vowels, post-classical)

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European past tense augment *e-, which is an isogloss shared only by Armenian, Ancient Greek, Indo-Iranian, and Phrygian. For examples of cognates see եդ (ed), եբեր (eber), եգիտ (egit).

Prefix

ե- • (e-)

  1. an augment, added to monosyllabic third-person singular aorist forms; called e-augment
    եբեր ― eber ― third-person singular present active aorist of բերեմ (berem)
    ետես ― etes ― third-person singular present active aorist of տեսանեմ (tesanem)
    եմուտ ― emut ― third-person singular present active aorist of մտանեմ (mtanem)

References

  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2013) “The place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family: the relationship with Greek and Indo-Iranian”, in Journal of Language Relationship‎, number 10, page 90
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) A Grammatical Sketch of Classical Armenian‎, Zagreb, page 23
  • Godel, Robert (1975) An introduction to the study of classical Armenian, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 112
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