-ակ
See also: ակ and Appendix:Variations of "ak"
Armenian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Armenian -ակ (-ak).
Pronunciation edit
- (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA(key): [ɑk]
- (Western Armenian, standard) IPA(key): [ɑɡ]
Suffix edit
-ակ • (-ak)
- forming diminutives
- forming names of things (tools) or people performing some action
- սուզակ ― suzak ― diver
- սահնակ ― sahnak ― sled, sleigh
Derived terms edit
Old Armenian edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Iranian *-ak, from Proto-Iranian *-akah. The agent-noun-forming suffix is probably etymologically distinct and is borrowed from Middle Iranian *-āk; it is found in the following wholly borrowed terms: դերձակ (derjak), վարձակ (varjak), պատմուճակ (patmučak), նուիրակ (nuirak) and perhaps աւազակ (awazak).
Suffix edit
-ակ • (-ak)
- forming diminutives from nominal stems
- forming agent nouns from verbal stems
- forming adjectives
- բոլորակ ― bolorak ― circular
- forming nouns from verbs
- forming nouns from adjectives, adverbs and pronouns
Declension edit
i-a-type
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Armenian: -ակ (-ak)
Further reading edit
- Асатрян, Г. С. (2013), “Парфянское gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in С. Р. Тохтасьев, П. Б. Лурье, editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Сборник статей к 90-летию Владимира Ароновича Лившица[1] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, →ISBN, page 103 of 102–105
- Gočanean, Pōġos (2011) Dasakan grabari gorcnakan kʿerakanutʿiwn [Practical Grammar of Classical Old Armenian][2] (in Armenian), Vienna and Yerevan: Mekhitarist Press, page 64
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1998), “-ակ”, in Hin hayereni verǰacancʿneri cagumə [The Origin of Old Armenian Suffixes] (Hayocʿ lezvi hamematakan kʿerakanutʿyan harcʿer; 2) (in Armenian), Yerevan: Anania Širakacʿi, pages 5–48