Where does “-գույն” come from?

-գույն (Armenian) comes from Old Armenian -գոյն, from Old Armenian գոյն, from Middle Persian gwn' — colour, complexion.

-գույն (Armenian): an elative suffix

Definitions

  1. an elative suffix

Ancestry of “-գույն”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Armenian-գոյնForming the comparative degree of adjectives; In...
2Old Armenianգոյնcolour; tint, dye; jaundice; a kind of musical...
3Middle Persiangwn'colour, complexion
Every word from Middle Persian gwn' →Every word from Old Armenian գոյն →Every word from Old Armenian -գոյն →