-ki
Basque
Suffix
-ki
- fragment, piece
- Forms nouns with a given number of components.
- lau (“four”) + -ki → lauki (“square”)
- meat (as food)
- txerri (“pig”) + -ki → txerriki (“pork”)
- Forms nouns denoting objects used to perform an action.
- estali (“to cover”) + -ki → estalki (“lid, cap”)
- produce, yield
- baratze (“orchard”) + -ki → barazki (“vegetable”)
Suffix
-ki
- Used to form adverbs from adjectives; -wise, -ly
Estonian
Adverb
-ki
- Alternative form of -gi
Usage notes
This form is used after voiceless consonants. After voiced consonants and vowels, the form -gi is used.
Finnish
Clitic
-ki
- (colloquial) Contraction of -kin.
- Mäki söin tänää jätskii.
- Also I ate ice-cream today.
- Mäki söin tänää jätskii.
Ingrian
Alternative forms
- -kii
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *-kik. Cognates include Finnish -kin and Estonian -gi.
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /-ki/, [-ki]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /-ki/, [-ki]
Clitic
-ki
- also, too, as well
- 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 11:
- Peenet lapset i neki talvia evät pölkää.
- Little children, even they aren't afraid of the winter.
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Derived terms
Ingrian terms suffixed with -ki
References
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 163
- Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку, →ISBN, page 18
Japanese
Romanization
-ki
- Rōmaji transcription of き
Pipil
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): /ki/
Suffix
-ki
- Preterite singular verb suffix
- kisa → kiski
- pewa → pejki
Usage notes
- The suffix -ki is used with Class I verbs (consonant stem), whereas the truncated suffix -k is used with Class II verbs (vowel-stem):
- panu → panuk
See also
- -ket (plural suffix)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ki/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -i
- Syllabification: ki
Suffix
-ki m
- Forms masculine adjectives
- jeden + -ki → jednaki
Declension
Declension of -ki
| case | singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine personal/animate | masculine inanimate | neuter | feminine | virile | nonvirile | ||
| nominative, vocative | -ki | -kie | -ka | -cy | -kie | ||
| genitive | -kiego | -kiej | -kich | ||||
| dative | -kiemu | -kim | |||||
| accusative | -kiego | -ki | -kie | -ką | -kich | -kie | |
| instrumental | -kim | -kimi | |||||
| locative | -kiej | -kich | |||||
Derived terms
Polish terms suffixed with -ki
Further reading
- -ki in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- -ki in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ـكی (-ki).
Suffix
-ki
- (with possessive) Used to form an adjectival or nominal meaning "that which belongs to."
- onların (“their”) + -ki → onlarınki (“theirs”)
- babamın (“my dad's (determinative)”) + -ki → babamınki (“my dad's (substantive)”)
Usage notes
This use of -ki is invariable with respect to vowel and consonant harmony, except after the ü vowel: bugün + -ki → bugünkü.
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1064
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *-kik. Cognates include Finnish -kin, Estonian Estonian -gi.
Adverb
-ki
- also, too, as well
References
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “также, тоже”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika