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-եմ
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եմ ԵՄ
Old Armenian
Etymology
A "kind of a scrap-heap" of several xcl ine-pro - formations, including old thematic presents like xcl բերեմ I carry ← ine-pro *bʰéreti *bʰér-e-ti; ye-presents like xcl ջնջեմ I wipe, destroy ← ine-pro *gʷʰen- *gʷʰén-ye-ti (see ine-pro *-yeti); causative-iteratives as xcl գործեմ I work ← ine-pro *werǵ- *worǵ-éye-ti (see ine-pro *-éyeti). xcl ^ -ե- stem vowel -մ verb ending.
Suffix
xcl suffix inflectional suffixes
first-person singular present active indicative ending of e-conjugation verbs
xcl գրեմ I write 1
xcl բերեմ I carry 1
xcl ջնջեմ I wipe, destroy 1
See also
xcl -ամ
xcl -իմ
xcl -ում
References
II 391