ասպակ

Old Armenian

Etymology

From Middle Median *aspak, from Old Median σπάκα (“dog”).

Noun

ասպակ • (aspak)

1. dog

Usage notes

The word is a hapax legomenon attested only in the following phrase: շունք սեղանոյն ասպակի սպասիցեն (šunkʻ sełanoyn aspaki spasicʻen).

Declension

i-a-type or i-type

	singular		plural
nominative	ասպակ (aspak)		ասպակք (aspakkʻ)
genitive	ասպակի (aspaki)		?
dative	ասպակի (aspaki)		?
accusative	ասպակ (aspak)		ասպակս (aspaks)
ablative	ասպակէ (aspakē)		?
instrumental	?		?
locative	ասպակի (aspaki)		ասպակս (aspaks)
the instrumental singular and the genitive/dative/instrumental plural are not attested, which does not allow determining whether the word followed an i-type or an i-a-type declension

Derived terms

• ասպականի (aspakani)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ասպակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Perixanjan, A. G. (1993) Материалы к этимологическому словарю древнеармянского языка. Часть I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1]‎^[1] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 20