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Old Church Slavonic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *-ę.
Suffix
-ѧ • (-ę) n
- Denominal nominalizing suffix used to form a neuter noun, usually a diminutive denoting the young of animals.
Usage notes
Lunt affirms that this suffix was “surely productive” in the OCS period, although few words formed with it are attested.
Declension
Declension of -ѧ (nt-stem)
Derived terms
References
- Halla-aho, Jussi (2006) Problems of Proto-Slavic Historical Nominal Morphology: On the Basis of Old Church Slavic (Slavica Helsingiensia; 26), Helsinki: University of Helsinki
- Lunt, Horace (2001) Old Church Slavonic Grammar, Seventh Revised Edition, Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 75.