-կէն

Old Armenian

Etymology

Of Iranian origin, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *-ayHnah. The -կ- (-k-) is partly from -իկ (-ik) and partly from Iranian stems in -k-.

Suffix

-կէն • (-kēn)

1. forming adjectives

Derived terms

Old Armenian terms suffixed with -կէն

Related terms

• նկարէն (nkarēn)

References

• Greppin, John A. C. (1975) Classical Armenian nominal suffixes: A historical study, a separate print of Greppin 1974, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 108–109
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1998) “-կէն”, 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
• Korn, Agnes, Olsen, Birgit Anette (2012) “On Armenian -agin: additional evidence for a third West Middle Iranian dialect?”, in Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft‎^[1], volume 66, number 2, page 202
• Meyer, Robin (2017) Iranian-Armenian language contact in and before the 5th century CE. PhD thesis‎^[2], University of Oxford, page 27
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 431