-ակ

From Old Armenian -ակ (-ak).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [ɑk]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [ɑɡ]

-ակ • (-ak)

1. forming diminutives

   Synonyms: -իկ (-ik), -ուկ (-uk)

   գետակ ― getak ― rivulet

   տնակ ― tnak ― little house

2. forming names of things (tools) or people performing some action

   սուզակ ― suzak ― diver

   սահնակ ― sahnak ― sled, sleigh

From Middle Iranian *-ak, from Proto-Iranian *-akah. The agent-noun-forming suffix is probably etymologically distinct and is borrowed from Middle Iranian *-āk; it is found in the following wholly borrowed terms: դերձակ (derjak), վարձակ (varjak), պատմուճակ (patmučak), նուիրակ (nuirak) and perhaps աւազակ (awazak).

-ակ • (-ak)

1. forming diminutives from nominal stems

   աթոռ ― atʻoṙ ― chair

   աթոռակ ― atʻoṙak ― small chair

   նաւ ― naw ― ship

   նաւակ ― nawak ― boat

2. forming agent nouns from verbal stems

   գտանեմ ― gtanem ― to find, invent

   գտակ ― gtak ― inventor

   լողամ ― lołam ― to swim

   լողակ ― lołak ― swimmer

3. forming adjectives

   բոլորակ ― bolorak ― circular

4. forming nouns from verbs

   է ― ē ― is

   էակ ― ēak ― being

5. forming nouns from adjectives, adverbs and pronouns

   քանի ― kʻani ― how many?

   քանակ ― kʻanak ― quantity

• (diminutive): -իկ (-ik), -ուկ (-uk)

• Armenian: -ակ (-ak)

• Асатрян, Г. С. (2013) “Парфянское gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in С. Р. Тохтасьев, П. Б. Лурье, editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Сборник статей к 90-летию Владимира Ароновича Лившица‎ (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]‎ (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