-ѧ
Old Church Slavonic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Slavic *-ę.
Suffix
edit-ѧ • (-ę) n
- Denominal nominalizing suffix used to form a neuter noun, usually a diminutive denoting the young of animals.
Usage notes
editLunt affirms that this suffix was “surely productive” in the OCS period, although few words formed with it are attested.
Declension
editDeclension of -ѧ (nt-stem)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- 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.