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Old Church Slavonic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *-ikъ.
Suffix
-икъ • (-ikŭ) m
- -er, -or; Deadjectival nominalizing suffix used chiefly to create a masculine agent noun from adjectives in -ин- and passive participles in -ен-.
- Isolated example is златикъ (zlatikŭ, “gold coin”), which has the suffix appended directly to the root злато (zlato, “gold”), and has diminutive (or singulative) meaning.
Declension
Declension of -икъ (o-stem)
Derived terms