ki-

Translingual

Prefix

ki-Category:Translingual lemmas#KI-Category:Translingual prefixes#KI-Category:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#KI-Category:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#KI-

  2. Nonstandard form of Ki- (“kibi-”)Category:Translingual nonstandard forms#KI-

Choctaw

Prefix

kī- (before vowels kil-, class N first-person plural)Category:Choctaw lemmas#KICategory:Choctaw suffixes#KICategory:Choctaw entries with incorrect language header#KICategory:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#KI-

  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 FrenchCategory:Esperanto terms borrowed from French#KI-Category:Esperanto terms derived from French#KI- (qui, que, quoi, quel, quand, comment, combien), ItalianCategory:Esperanto terms borrowed from Italian#KI-Category:Esperanto terms derived from Italian#KI- (che), RussianCategory:Esperanto terms borrowed from Russian#KI-Category:Esperanto terms derived from Russian#KI- (кто, как, какой, куда, когда).

Pronunciation

Prefix

ki-Category:Esperanto lemmas#KI-Category:Esperanto prefixes#KI-Category:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#KI-Category:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#KI-

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

Derived terms

Haitian Creole

Prefix

ki-Category:Haitian Creole lemmas#KI-Category:Haitian Creole prefixes#KI-Category:Haitian Creole entries with incorrect language header#KI-Category:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#KI-

  1. what, which (interrogative prefix)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Prefix

ki-Category:Hungarian lemmas#KI-Category:Hungarian prefixes#KI-Category:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#KI-Category:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#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

Category:Pages using catfix#KI-

See also

References

Japanese

Romanization

ki-Category:Japanese non-lemma forms#KI-Category:Japanese romanizations#KI-Category:Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes#KI-Category:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#KI-Category:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#KI-

  1. Rōmaji transcription of き

Kongo

Etymology

    Category:Kongo terms derived from Proto-Bantu#KI-Category:Kongo entries referencing missing etymons#KI-Category:Kongo terms inherited from Proto-Bantu#KI-Category:Pages using etymon with no ID#KI-

    From Proto-BantuCategory:Kongo terms inherited from Proto-Bantu#KI-Category:Kongo terms derived from Proto-Bantu#KI- *kɪ̀-.

    Prefix

    ki- (plural bi-)Category:Kongo lemmas#KI-Category:Kongo prefixes#KI-Category:Kongo entries with incorrect language header#KI-Category:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#KI-

    1. class 7 prefix
    2. class 7 subject concord
    3. used to form name of languages
    4. used to form name of villages

    Makasar

    Pronunciation

    Pronoun

    ki- (nominative proclitic, Lontara spelling ᨀᨗ)Category:Makasar lemmas#KI-Category:Makasar pronouns#KI-Category:Makasar entries with incorrect language header#KI-Category:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#KI-

    Category:Makasar pronouns#KI-
    1. we (first person plural inclusive)
    2. you (polite second person singular and plural)

    See also

    Makasar free and bound pronouns
    independent absolutive nominative possessive
    1st sg / 1st pl exclusive nakke -a' ku- -ku
    1st pl exclusive (archaic) kambe -kang ki- -mang
    1st pl inclusive / 2nd sg polite katte -ki' ki- -ta
    2nd sg / pl familiar kau -ko nu- -nu
    3rd sg / pl ia -i na- -na

    Old High German

    Prefix

    ki-Category:Old High German lemmas#KI-Category:Old High German prefixes#KI-Category:Old High German entries with incorrect language header#KI-Category:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#KI-

    1. (BavarianCategory:Bavarian Old High German#KI-) alternative form of gi-

    Pipil

    Pronunciation

    Prefix

    ki-Category:Pipil lemmas#KI-Category:Pipil prefixes#KI-Category:Pipil entries with incorrect language header#KI-Category:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#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

    Pipil verb object markers
    singular plural
    1st person nech- tech-
    2nd person metz- metzin-
    3rd person ki- kin-
    • yaja (personal pronoun)

    Swahili

    Other scripts
    Ajami كِـ

    Pronunciation

    Etymology 1

      Category:Swahili terms derived from Proto-Bantu#KI-Category:Swahili terms inherited from Proto-Bantu#KI-Category:Swahili terms inherited from Proto-Sabaki#KI-Category:Swahili terms derived from Proto-Sabaki#KI-Category:Pages using etymon with no ID#KI-

      Inherited from Proto-SabakiCategory:Swahili terms inherited from Proto-Sabaki#KI-Category:Swahili terms derived from Proto-Sabaki#KI- *ki-, from Proto-BantuCategory:Swahili terms inherited from Proto-Bantu#KI-Category:Swahili terms derived from Proto-Bantu#KI- *kɪ̀-. Cognate with Ngazidja Comorian hi- ~ i- and Digo chi-.

      Alternative forms

      Prefix

      ki- (plural vi-)Category:Swahili lemmas#KI-Category:Swahili prefixes#KI-Category:Swahili diminutive prefixes#KI-Category:Swahili entries with incorrect language header#KI-Category:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#KI-

      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 thingCategory:Swahili terms with usage examples#KI-
        kilema ― a crippled personCategory:Swahili terms with usage examples#KI-
        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.
          Category:Swahili terms with quotations#KI-
      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

      Etymology 2

      Inherited from Proto-BantuCategory:Swahili terms inherited from Proto-Bantu#KI-Category:Swahili terms derived from Proto-Bantu#KI- *kɪ́-.

      Prefix

      ki-Category:Swahili lemmas#KI-Category:Swahili prefixes#KI-Category:Swahili entries with incorrect language header#KI-Category:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#KI-

      1. it, ki class(VII) subject concord
        • 18th century, Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir, Al-Inkishafi‎, stanza 14:
          نِكَمَ كِسِمَ كِسِگُ وُمْبِّ ، كِنْيِ مْتَپَاءَ مَانَ وَغُمْبِ
          Ni-kama kisima kisicho ombe, chenye mta-paa mwana wa-ng'ombe,
          It is like a shallow well where charges a young bull;
          Category:Swahili terms with quotations#KI-
        • 1973, Mohammed S. Abdulla, Duniani kuna watu, page 3:
          […] na kichwa chake kiwazi kilituonyesha nywele zilizochanwa na kupasuliwa njia katikati.
          […] and his uncovered head showed us combed hair with a middle part.
          Category:Swahili terms with quotations#KI-
      2. verb-initial form of -ki- (“it, ki class(VII) object concord”)
      See also
      Swahili verbal concords (third person)
      class subject concord object concord relative
      affirmative negative
      m(I) a-, yu- ha-, hayu- -m-, -mw-, -mu- -ye
      wa(II) wa- hawa- -wa- -o
      m(III) u- hau- -u- -o
      mi(IV) i- hai- -i- -yo
      ji(V) li- hali- -li- -lo
      ma(VI) ya- haya- -ya- -yo
      ki(VII) ki- haki- -ki- -cho
      vi(VIII) vi- havi- -vi- -vyo
      n(IX) i- hai- -i- -yo
      n(X) zi- hazi- -zi- -zo
      u(XI) u- hau- -u- -o
      ku(XV/XVII) ku- haku- -ku- -ko
      pa(XVI) pa- hapa- -pa- -po
      mu(XVIII) m-, mw-, mu- ham-, hamw-, hamu- -mu- -mo

      For a full table including first and second person,
      see Appendix:Swahili personal pronouns

      Tooro

      Alternative forms

      • (before vowels) ky-

      Etymology

      From Proto-BantuCategory:Tooro terms inherited from Proto-Bantu#KI-Category:Tooro terms derived from Proto-Bantu#KI- *kɪ́-.

      Pronunciation

      Prefix

      ki-Category:Tooro lemmas#KI-Category:Tooro prefixes#KI-Category:Tooro pronominal concords#KI-Category:Tooro subject concords#KI-Category:Tooro entries with incorrect language header#KI-Category:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#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

      Tooro personal pronouns
      class person independent possessive subject
      concord      		 object
      concord      		 combined forms
      na ni
      class 1first nyowe, nye -ange n- -n- nanyowe, nanye ninyowe, ninye
      second iwe -awe o- -ku- naiwe niiwe
      third uwe -e a- -mu- nawe nuwe
      class 2first itwe -aitu tu- -tu- naitwe niitwe
      second inywe -anyu mu- -ba- nainywe niinywe
      third bo -abo ba- -ba- nabo nubo
      class 3 gwo -agwo gu- -gu- nagwo nugwo
      class 4 yo -ayo e- -gi- nayo niyo
      class 5 lyo -alyo li- -li- nalyo niryo
      class 6 go -ago ga- -ga- nago nugo
      class 7 kyo -akyo ki- -ki- nakyo nikyo
      class 8 byo -abyo bi- -bi- nabyo nibyo
      class 9 yo -ayo e- -gi- nayo niyo
      class 10 zo -azo zi- -zi- nazo nizo
      class 11 rwo -arwo ru- -ru- narwo nurwo
      class 12 ko -ako ka- -ka- nako nuko
      class 13 two -atwo tu- -tu- natwo nutwo
      class 14 bwo -abwo bu- -bu- nabwo nubwo
      class 15 kwo -akwo ku- -ku- nakwo nukwo
      class 16 ho -aho ha- -ha- naho nuho
      class 17 (kwo) N/A ha-
      (...-yo)      		 -ha- N/A nukwo
      class 18 (mwo) -amwo ha-
      (...-mu)      		 -ha- N/A numwo
      reflexive -enyini, -onyini — -e- —

      References

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

      Wailaki

      Etymology 1

      Compare with Navajo ho-, hw-, Hupa xo-, and Ahtna ko-, ku-.

      Prefix

      ki-Category:Wailaki lemmas#KI-Category:Wailaki prefixes#KI-Category:Wailaki entries with incorrect language header#KI-Category:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#KI-

      1. Marks an areal verbal subject
      Subject prefixes
      singular plural
      1st person sh-, i- di-
      2nd person n- oh-
      3rd person ∅-
      3rd person obviate yi-
      Indefinite chʼi-, ʼ-
      Areal ki-

      References

      • Begay, Kayla Rae (2017), Wailaki Grammar, University of California, Berkeley, page 166

      Etymology 2

      Prefix

      ki-Category:Wailaki lemmas#KI-Category:Wailaki prefixes#KI-Category:Wailaki entries with incorrect language header#KI-Category:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#KI-

      1. Marks an indefinite possessor or object of a postposition.
        ‎-siʼ (“head”) + ‎ki- → ‎kisiʼ (“one's head”)
      See also
      Wailaki possessive/prepositional prefixes
      singular plural
      1st person shi- ŋhoh-
      2nd person ni- ŋhoh-
      3rd person bi-
      Reflexive ʼaa-
      Indefinite ki-
      Thematic kyʼi-
      Obviative yidi-
      Reciprocal ł-

      References

      • Begay, Kayla Rae (2017), Wailaki Grammar, University of California, Berkeley, page 220

      Ye'kwana

      Pronunciation

      Prefix

      ki-Category:Ye'kwana lemmas#KICategory:Ye'kwana prefixes#KICategory:Ye'kwana entries with incorrect language header#KICategory:Pages with entries#KI-Category:Pages with 14 entries#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

      Category:Bavarian Old High German Category:Choctaw lemmas Category:Choctaw suffixes Category:Esperanto lemmas Category:Esperanto prefixes Category:Esperanto terms borrowed from French Category:Esperanto terms borrowed from Italian Category:Esperanto terms borrowed from Russian Category:Esperanto terms derived from French Category:Esperanto terms derived from Italian Category:Esperanto terms derived from Russian Category:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation Category:Haitian Creole lemmas Category:Haitian Creole prefixes Category:Hungarian lemmas Category:Hungarian prefixes Category:Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation Category:Hungarian terms with audio pronunciation Category:Japanese non-lemma forms Category:Japanese romanizations Category:Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes Category:Kongo entries referencing missing etymons Category:Kongo lemmas Category:Kongo prefixes Category:Kongo terms derived from Proto-Bantu Category:Kongo terms inherited from Proto-Bantu Category:Makasar lemmas Category:Makasar pronouns Category:Makasar terms with IPA pronunciation Category:Old High German lemmas Category:Old High German prefixes Category:Pages using catfix Category:Pages using etymon with no ID Category:Pages with 14 entries Category:Pages with entries Category:Pipil lemmas Category:Pipil prefixes Category:Pipil terms with IPA pronunciation Category:Rhymes:Esperanto/i- Category:Rhymes:Esperanto/i-/1 syllable Category:Swahili diminutive prefixes Category:Swahili lemmas Category:Swahili prefixes Category:Swahili terms derived from Proto-Bantu Category:Swahili terms derived from Proto-Sabaki Category:Swahili terms inherited from Proto-Bantu Category:Swahili terms inherited from Proto-Sabaki Category:Swahili terms with audio pronunciation Category:Swahili terms with quotations Category:Swahili terms with usage examples Category:Tooro lemmas Category:Tooro prefixes Category:Tooro pronominal concords Category:Tooro subject concords Category:Tooro terms derived from Proto-Bantu Category:Tooro terms inherited from Proto-Bantu Category:Tooro terms with IPA pronunciation Category:Translingual lemmas Category:Translingual nonstandard forms Category:Translingual prefixes Category:Wailaki lemmas Category:Wailaki prefixes Category:Ye'kwana lemmas Category:Ye'kwana prefixes Category:Ye'kwana terms in nonstandard scripts Category:Ye'kwana terms with IPA pronunciation