-ուհի

Etymology
From.

Suffix

 * 1) -ess, -ette. Forms nouns denoting female gender.
 * — female dancer
 * — female singer
 * — mistress
 * — female Armenian

Etymology
The older spelling is. Probably an borrowing, but the exact source is disputed.

According to Godel, it is likely to derive from re-analysis of the loanword from 🇨🇬, the feminine form of, owing to which the suffix was generalized. An alternative proposal is the derivation from. It has also been compared with in.