ե-
See also: ե, Ե, and -ե
Old Armenian
Alternative forms
- է- (ē-) (before vowels, post-classical)
Etymology
From the Proto-Indo-European past tense augment *e-, which is an isogloss shared only by Armenian, Ancient Greek, Indo-Iranian, and Phrygian. For examples of cognates see եդ (ed), եբեր (eber), եգիտ (egit).
Prefix
ե- • (e-)
- an augment, added to monosyllabic third-person singular aorist forms; called e-augment
- եբեր ― eber ― third-person singular present active aorist of բերեմ (berem)
- ետես ― etes ― third-person singular present active aorist of տեսանեմ (tesanem)
- եմուտ ― emut ― third-person singular present active aorist of մտանեմ (mtanem)
References
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2013), “The place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family: the relationship with Greek and Indo-Iranian”, in Journal of Language Relationship, issue 10, page 90
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) A Grammatical Sketch of Classical Armenian, Zagreb, page 23
- Godel, Robert (1975) An introduction to the study of classical Armenian, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 112