Where does “-յր” come from?

-յր (Old Armenian) comes from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

-յր (Old Armenian): third-person singular imperfect ending of verbs

Definitions

  1. third-person singular imperfect ending of verbs

Ancestry of “-յր”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
2Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tōr →