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"text": "Middle Armenian: -ան (-an)\nArmenian: -ան (-an)"
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"text": "տոփան ― topʻan ― rammer",
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"text": "ձիան ― jian ― horses",
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"etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *-n̥to, the third-person plural past indicative middle ending of verbs. The -ա- (-a-) of this form is thought to have spread throughout other persons and numbers of the aorist mediopassive indicative paradigm.",
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"text": "նստ-ան",
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{
"english": "they looked",
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"Old Armenian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European"
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"romanization"
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"text": "իշան",
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"text": "ձիան ― jian ― horses",
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"etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *-n̥to, the third-person plural past indicative middle ending of verbs. The -ա- (-a-) of this form is thought to have spread throughout other persons and numbers of the aorist mediopassive indicative paradigm.",
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"english": "they sat",
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"text": "նստ-ան",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "they looked",
"roman": "hayecʻ-an",
"text": "հայեց-ան",
"type": "example"
}
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"third-person plural aorist mediopassive indicative ending of verbs"
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