-անդակ

Old Armenian

Etymology

From Middle Iranian *-andak, from *-and (present participle marker) + *-ak, for which see Proto-Indo-European *-onts and Proto-Iranian *-akah, respectively. Found in the following terms wholly borrowed Iranian: բովանդակ (bovandak), սուրհանդակ (surhandak), օժանդակ (ōžandak), դժնդակ (džndak) and perhaps կարկանդակ (karkandak).

Suffix

-անդակ • (-andak)

  1. Forming adjectives
    այլ (ayl) + -անդակ (-andak)այլանդակ (aylandak)
    չար (čʻar) + -անդակ (-andak)չարանդակ (čʻarandak)

Usage notes

Barely productive.

Declension

Derived terms

Category Old Armenian terms suffixed with -անդակ not found

References

  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 354
  • Djahukian, G. B. (1993) “The Armenian Suffixes of Iranian Origin”, in Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp, editors, Comparative-historical linguistics: Indo-European and Finno-Ugric. Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi III (Current issues in linguistic theory; 79), Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, page 262
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    J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1998) “-(ա)նդակ”, 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
  • 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, pages 304–305
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