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Finnish
Etymology 1
Contraction of -kos
Pronunciation
Particle
-ks (colloquial, enclitic particle)
- Synonym of -ko (interrogative clitic)
- löytyyks mitää? ― are you finding anything?
Usage notes
- Not subject to vowel harmony; both -kos and -kös become -ks.
- Even though etymologically -ks contains the clitic -s, in practice it is used colloquially as a general interrogative clitic and is as neutral as -ko (other than being colloquial).
See also
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ks (colloquial, dialectal)
- Alternative form of -ksi.
Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *-ksi. Cognates include Finnish -ksi and Estonian -ks.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ks
- Used to form the translative case.
- (folk poetic, obsolete) Together with a possessive suffix, used to form the long first infinitive with the meaning "in order to".
1915, Volmari Porkka, quoting Oute Loan kylästä, “1140. Soikkola, Tarinaisi, III2”, in Väinö Salminen, editor, Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot. Länsi-Inkerin runot, volume III1, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, lines 1-2:Etsi maata maataksee // Lehtoa levätäksee- She searched for land to lie down // For woods to take a break
Usage notes
- In the Soikkola dialect, in the function of the translative case, may trigger vowel elongation of the preceding vowel.
Inflection
References
- V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 44