ինքզինք

From Old Armenian ինքն զինքն (inkʻn zinkʻn).

• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ink(ə)ˈzink/,

ինքզինք • (inkʻzinkʻ) (Western Armenian)

1. (reflexive pronoun) -self (used for the first, second, and third persons, accusative case only)

   Ինքզինքդ կը վնասես։

   Inkʻzinkʻd kə vnases.

   You are harming yourself.

   Ան ինքզինք շատ խելացի կը կարծէ։

   An inkʻzinkʻ šat xelacʻi kə karcē.

   He thinks himself to be very smart.

   Ինքզինքս գէշ կը զգամ։

   Inkʻzinkʻs gēš kə zgam.

   I do not feel well.

The grammatical person is determined by the suffix: ինքզինք (inkʻzinkʻ) and ինքզինքը (inkʻzinkʻə, “himself, herself”) are used for the third person, ինքզինքդ (inkʻzinkʻd, “yourself”) is used for the second person, and ինքզինքս (inkʻzinkʻs, “myself”) is used for the first person. The third, second and first person plural forms are ինքզինքնին (inkʻzinkʻnin, “themselves”), ինքզինքնիդ (inkʻzinkʻnid, “yourselves”) and ինքզինքնիս (inkʻzinkʻnis, “ourselves”), respectively.

This reflexive pronoun is supposed to be used only in the accusative case (hence the presence of the Old Armenian accusative prefix զ-). Other case forms such as dative/genitive ինքզինքիս (inkʻzinkʻis) and ablative ինքզինքէս (inkʻzinkʻēs) are proscribed but can be found in written Western Armenian.

• Eġiayean, Armenak (2022) Arewmtahayerēni Uġġagrakan, Uġġaxōsakan, Očabanakan Uġecʻoycʻ [A Manual for Western Armenian: An Orthographic, Orthoepic and Stylistic Guide] (in Armenian), Beirut: ARI Literature Foundation, pages 269–272