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Old Armenian
Etymology
Of Iranian origin, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *-ayHnah. The -կ- (-k-) is partly from -իկ (-ik) and partly from Iranian stems in -k-.
Suffix
-կէն • (-kēn)
- forming adjectives
Derived terms
References
- Greppin, John A. C. (1975) Classical Armenian nominal suffixes: A historical study, a separate print of Greppin 1974, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 108–109
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1998) “-կէն”, 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
- Korn, Agnes, Olsen, Birgit Anette (2012) “On Armenian -agin: additional evidence for a third West Middle Iranian dialect?”, in Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, volume 66, number 2, page 202
- Meyer, Robin (2017) Iranian-Armenian language contact in and before the 5th century CE. PhD thesis, University of Oxford, page 27
- Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 431