-ակ
See also: ակ and Appendix:Variations of "ak"
Armenian
Etymology
From Old Armenian -ակ (-ak).
Pronunciation
- (Eastern Armenian) IPA(key): /ɑk/, [ɑk]
- (Western Armenian) IPA(key): /ɑɡ/, [ɑɡ]
Suffix
-ակ • (-ak)
- forming diminutives
- forming names of things (tools) or people performing some action
- սուզակ ― suzak ― diver
- սահնակ ― sahnak ― sled, sleigh
Derived terms
Old Armenian
Etymology
From Middle Iranian *-ak, from Proto-Iranian *-akah. Compare also Old Georgian -აკი (-aḳi).
According to Asatrian, the agent-noun-forming suffix is etymologically distinct and is borrowed from Middle Iranian *-āk. According to him, it is found in the following wholly borrowed terms: դերձակ (derjak), վարձակ (varjak), պատմուճակ (patmučak), նուիրակ (nuirak) and perhaps աւազակ (awazak).
Suffix
-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
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | -ակ (-ak) | -ակք (-akkʻ) |
| genitive | -ակի (-aki) | -ակաց (-akacʻ) |
| dative | -ակի (-aki) | -ակաց (-akacʻ) |
| accusative | -ակ (-ak) | -ակս (-aks) |
| ablative | -ակէ (-akē) | -ակաց (-akacʻ) |
| instrumental | -ակաւ (-akaw) | -ակաւք = -ակօք (-akawkʻ = -akōkʻ) |
| locative | -ակի (-aki) | -ակս (-aks) |
Synonyms
Derived terms
Old Armenian terms suffixed with -ակ
Related terms
Descendants
- Armenian: -ակ (-ak)
Further reading
- Asatrjan, G. S. (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 kʻerakanutʻiwn [Practical Grammar of Classical Old Armenian][2] (in Armenian), Vienna and Yerevan: Mekhitarist Press, page 64
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1998) “-ակ”, 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