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-ek

-ek

See also: ek, ek-, ék, -ék, Ek, EK, and ÉK

Breton

Suffix

-ek

  1. Adjectival suffix
    douar (earth) + -ekdouarek (earthy, earthly)
    dour (water) + -ekdourek (watery, humid)
    houarn (iron) + -ekhouarnek (ferrous)

Derived terms

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Related terms


Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ.

Suffix

-ek m

  1. masculine diminutive noun suffix

Derived terms

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɛk]

Etymology 1

-e- (linking vowel) + -k (plural suffix)

Suffix

-ek

  1. (plural suffix) -s, -es
    kert (garden)kertek (gardens)
Usage notes
  • (plural suffix) Harmonic variants:
    -k is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.
    (woman) →‎ k (women)
    fa (tree) →‎ k (trees)
    csésze (cup) →‎ csészék (cups)
    -ak is added to some back vowel words ending in a consonant
    ház (house) →‎ házak (houses)
    -ok is added to some back vowel words ending in a consonant
    pad (bench) →‎ padok (benches)
    -ek is added to unrounded front vowel words ending in a consonant
    kert (garden) →‎ kertek (gardens)
    -ök is added to rounded front vowel words ending in a consonant
    circle →‎ körök (circles)

Etymology 2

-e- (linking vowel) + -k (personal suffix)

Suffix

-ek

  1. (personal suffix) Used to form the first-person singular present tense of verbs (indicative mood, indefinite conjugation).
    kér (to ask)kérek (I ask, I am asking)
Usage notes
  • (personal suffix) Variants:
    -ok is added to back vowel verbs
    -ek is added to unrounded front vowel verbs
    -ök is added to rounded front vowel verbs
    -om is added to back vowel -ik verbs
    -em is added to unrounded front vowel -ik verbs
    -öm is added to rounded front vowel -ik verbs

See also

  • Category:Hungarian noun forms
  • Category:Hungarian verb forms
  • Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

Kurdish

Etymology

Cognate with yek (one)

Article

-ek

  1. a, an (indefinite article)

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ.

Suffix

-ek m

  1. masculine diminutive noun suffix

Declension

* for impersonal nouns

** for inanimate nouns

Derived terms

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Serbo-Croatian

Suffix

-ek (Cyrillic spelling -ек)

  1. Suffix appended to the present stem of verbs or nouns to form an adjective denoting a feature or a dimension.
    • Proto-Slavic *dalь + -ekdalek (far).

See also

Suffix

-ek (Cyrillic spelling -ек)

  1. (Kajkavian) Suffix appended to words to create a masculine noun, usually denoting a performer, feature, human relation, result of an action, object, diminutive or a proper name.

Yup'ik

Suffix

-ek

  1. ablative-modalis case ending

Usage notes

A historical merger of ablative and modalis (instrumental). It performs a wide range of adverbial and syntactic functions.[1]

References

  1. Miyaoka, Osahito (2012) A Grammar of Central Alaskan Yupik (CAY) (in English), Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, ISBN 978-3-11-027820-0, page 750