-ովք
Old Armenian
editEtymology
editFormed in Armenian as -ով (-ov) + -ք (-kʻ). Alternatively, inherited from Proto-Indo-European instrumental plural ending of athematic stems *-bʰis and cognate with Sanskrit -भिस् (-bhis), Old Irish dative plural -ib.
Suffix
edit-ովք • (-ovkʻ)
- the plural instrumental case ending of o-stem nouns
Related terms
editReferences
edit- Godel, Robert (1975) An introduction to the study of classical Armenian, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 104
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) A Grammatical Sketch of Classical Armenian[1], Zagreb, page 19