ki-

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Choctaw

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Prefix

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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

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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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).

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ki-

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

Derived terms

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Haitian Creole

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Prefix

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ki-

  1. what, which (interrogative prefix)

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈki]
  • Audio:(file)

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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

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References

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Kongo

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ki- (plural bi-)

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

Makasar

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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ki- (nominative proclitic, Lontara spelling ᨀᨗ)

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

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Old High German

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ki-

  1. (Bavaria) Alternative form of gi-

Pipil

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Pronunciation

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Prefix

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ki-

  1. (personal) it, her, him, third-person singular object marker.
    Te kikak aka
    Nobody heard it/him/her

Usage notes

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  • 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

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  • yaja (personal pronoun)

Swahili

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀-.

Alternative forms

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Prefix

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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 kizuria nice thing
    kilemaa 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)
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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)
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-Bantu *kɪ́-.

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ki-

  1. it, ki class(VII) subject concord
    • 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.
  2. verb-initial form of -ki- (it, ki class(VII) object concord)
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Tooro

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Alternative forms

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  • (before vowels) ky-

Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *kɪ́-.

Pronunciation

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Prefix

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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))

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References

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  • Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 414

Ye'kwana

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Pronunciation

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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.

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