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Galstyan, Galstyan (1978) Acancʻumə ew acancʻnerə žamanakakicʻ hayerenum [Affixation and affixes in modern Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: University Press, page 132
From the Proto-Indo-European*-yo- or *-yeh₂ suffix. Compare the same suffix in Sanskrit स्वप्न्य(svápnya), Ancient Greek δεξιός(dexiós), Latin somnium. The genitive ending -ի(-i) may have the same origin.
Gočanean, Pōġos (2011) Dasakan grabari gorcnakan kʻerakanutʻiwn [Practical Grammar of Classical Old Armenian] (in Armenian), Vienna and Yerevan: Mekhitarist Press, page 84
Godel, Robert (1975) An introduction to the study of classical Armenian, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 66
J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1998) “-ի”, in Hin hayereni verǰacancʻneri cagumə [The Origin of Old Armenian Suffixes] (Hayocʻ lezvi hamematakan kʻerakanutʻyan harcʻer; 2) (in Armenian), Yerevan: Anania Širakacʻi, pages 5–48
Etymology 2
The genitive/dative/locative marker for i-declension is identical with the -ի-(-i-) stem vowel. In Godel's words, the remaining stem, standing in contrast to the nominative/accusative singular (which lost its stem), was apt to function as a full-fledged case form. According to Godel, in the case of the i-a-declension we are dealing with a Proto-Armenian morphological innovation: the new morpheme was abstracted from the genitive/dative/locative case ending -ի(-i) of i-stem nouns and applied to a-stem nouns, whose original endings had been lost.