-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)

Forming adjectives
‎այլ (ayl) + ‎-անդակ (-andak) → ‎այլանդակ (aylandak)
‎չար (čʿar) + ‎-անդակ (-andak) → ‎չարանդակ (čʿarandak)

Usage notes

Barely productive.

Declension

i-a-type

	singular	plural
nominative	-անդակ (-andak)	-անդակք (-andakkʿ)
genitive	-անդակի (-andaki)	-անդակաց (-andakacʿ)
dative	-անդակի (-andaki)	-անդակաց (-andakacʿ)
accusative	-անդակ (-andak)	-անդակս (-andaks)
ablative	-անդակէ (-andakē)	-անդակաց (-andakacʿ)
instrumental	-անդակաւ (-andakaw)	-անդակաւք = -անդակօք (-andakawkʿ = -andakōkʿ)
locative	-անդակի (-andaki)	-անդակս (-andaks)

Derived terms

Category Old Armenian terms suffixed with -անդակ not found

Related terms

-ակ (-ak)

References

J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; 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
J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1998), “-(ա)նդակ”, 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
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