ki-

Choctaw

Prefix

kī- (before vowels kil-, class N first-person plural)

1. the subject of a hortative verb

   let us

2. the subject of a negative active transitive verb

   we don't

3. the subject of a negative active intransitive verb

   we don't

Inflection

Esperanto

Etymology

From interrogative and relative pronouns of European languages, such as French (qui, que, quoi, quel, quand, comment, combien), Italian (che), Russian (кто, как, какой, куда, когда).

Prefix

ki-

1. wh-, what (interrogative/relative correlative prefix)

Derived terms

• kiu (“which one, who, which/what (with a noun)”)
• kio (“what (without a noun)”)
• kia (“what kind of, what a ...!”)
• kies (“whose”)
• kiel (“how, to what degree”)
• kie (“where”)
• kiam (“when”)
• kiom (“how much”)
• kial (“why”)

Haitian Creole

Prefix

ki-

1. what, which (interrogative prefix)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

• Audio

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Prefix

ki-

1. (verbal prefix) It indicates actions with outward direction or actions aiming fulfillment.

   megy (“to go”) → kimegy (“to exit, to go out”)

2. construed with magát and definite conjugation of originally intransitive verbs: to one's heart's content, as much as one wants or needs

   alszik (“to sleep”) → kialussza magát (“to get enough sleep”)

   úszik (“to swim”) → kiússza magát (“to have enough swim”)

   beszél (“to speak”) → kibeszéli magát (“to say everything that weighs on one’s mind”)

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes

References

• Hungarian verb prefixes in the English Wikipedia

Makasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Pronoun

ki- (nominative proclitic, Lontara spelling ᨀᨗ)

1. we (first person plural inclusive)
2. you (polite second person singular and plural)

See also

Old High German

Prefix

ki-

1. (Bavaria) Alternative form of gi-

Pipil

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ɣi/

Prefix

ki-

1. (personal) it, her, him, third-person singular object marker.

   Te kikak aka

   Nobody heard it/him/her

Usage notes

• When the prefix "-ki-" is being preceded by a subject marker o followed by an initial "i" in the verb, it loses its own i and becomes just "-k-", as in this example:

Nikneki se kinia

I want (it) a banana

See also

• yaja (personal pronoun)

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Etymology 1

From Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀-.

Alternative forms

• ch-

Prefix

ki- (plural vi-)

1. ki class_(VII) noun prefix and adjective agreement prefix, denoting mostly artefacts (objects made by humans) and people or objects with physical defects

   kitu kizuri ― a nice thing

   kilema ― a crippled person

   1. diminutive prefix

      ‎ki- + ‎mtoto (“child”) → ‎kitoto (“baby”)

2. prefix used to derive adverbs from nouns describing human qualities

   ‎ki- + ‎mtoto (“child”) → ‎kitoto (“childishly”)

   ‎ki- + ‎-shenzi (“barbarous”) → ‎kishenzi (“like a barbarian”)

   1. forms the name of a language

      ‎ki- + ‎Arabic سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coastal dwellers”) → ‎Kiswahili (“Swahili language”)

      ‎ki- + ‎Uingereza (“England”) → ‎Kiingereza (“English language”)

3. (prefixed to an entire noun, including its class prefix) adverbial prefix

   ‎ki- + ‎mapenzi (“love”) → ‎kimapenzi (“romantically”)

   • 2022, Muungano wa Tanganyika na Zanzibar: Chimbuko, Misingi na Maendeleo, Serikali ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, →ISBN:

     […] mwingiliano wa miaka mingi kibiashara, kijamii na kiutamaduni katika nchi hizi mbili.

     many years of interaction, commercially, societally, and culturally, between these two countries.

4. (prefixed to reduplicated locative word) adverbial prefix

   ‎ki- + ‎juu (“top, surface”) → ‎kijuujuu (“superficially”)

Usage notes

Adverbs derived with this prefix are often used as adjectives with a preceding -a:

‎-a + ‎ki- + ‎mke (“woman”) → ‎-a kike (“female”)

‎-a + ‎ki- + ‎mataifa (“nations”) → ‎-a kimataifa (“international”)

See also

• Appendix:Swahili noun classes

Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *kɪ́-.

Prefix

ki-

1. it, ki class_(VII) subject concord
2. verb-initial form of -ki- (“it, ki class_(VII) object concord”)

See also

Tooro

Alternative forms

• (before vowels) ky-

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *kɪ́-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki-/,

Prefix

ki-

1. class 7 pronominal concord

   ‎ki- + ‎-nu (“this, these”) → ‎kinu (“this (class 7)”)

2. it; class 7 subject concord

   ‎ki- + ‎-kora (“to do”) → ‎kikora (“it (class 7) does”)

3. positive imperative form of -ki- (“it; class 7 object concord”)

   ‎ki- + ‎-ha (“to give”) → ‎kiha (“give it (class 7)”)

See also

References

• Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 414

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Prefix

ki-

1. Allomorph of k- (first-person-dual-inclusive non-transitive-agent prefix) used for stems that begin with a consonant and have a first vowel i.
2. Allomorph of k- (first-person-dual-inclusive transitive agent prefix) used for stems that begin with two consonants.

Inflection