Breton

Suffix

-ek

1. Adjectival suffix

   douar ‎(“earth”) + ‎-ek → ‎douarek ‎(“earthy, earthly”)

   dour ‎(“water”) + ‎-ek → ‎dourek ‎(“watery, humid”)

   houarn ‎(“iron”) + ‎-ek → ‎houarnek ‎(“ferrous”)

Derived terms

Related terms

• -eg

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ.

Suffix

-ek m

1. masculine diminutive noun suffix

Derived terms

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-.

  nő ‎(“woman”) →‎ nők ‎(“women”)

  fa ‎(“tree”) →‎ fák ‎(“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

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 + -ek → dalek ‎(“far”).

See also

• -ak
• -ok

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