English

Suffix

-k

1. (obsolete, no longer productive) A suffix found in words of Middle English, Old English , usually with an intensive or frequentative effect.

   tale, talk; steal, stalk; smile, smirk; mire, mirk; lour, lurk; hear, hark; fare, firk; yare, yark

Abenaki

Suffix

-k

1. A suffix used to form the plurals of some animate words.

   tmakwa ‎(“beaver”) → tmakwak ‎(“beavers”)

Usage notes

• Used to form the plurals of almost all words that end in a, and of some words that end in other vowels or in the semivowel w; not used to form the plurals of words ending in consonants.
• See the usage notes at -ak.

Chuukese

Suffix

-k

1. (added to verbs) you (singular, indirect object suffix)

Estonian

Etymology 1

Cognate with Finnish -kko.

Suffix

-k ‎(genitive -ku, partitive -kut)

1. Derives nouns from verbs, or sometimes from other nominals. The derivations can express the following:
   1. a single instance of an action

      minema ‎(“to go”) → minek ‎(“a going”)

      ründama ‎(“to attack”) → rünnak ‎(“an attack”)

   2. the object of an action

      õppima ‎(“to study”) → õpik ‎(“textbook”)

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Cognate with Finnish -kki.

Suffix

-k ‎(genitive -ki, partitive -kit)

1. Derives nouns from verbs denoting an instrument of action.

   sõitma ‎(“to drive”) → sõiduk ‎(“vehicle”)

   hõljuma ‎(“to hover”) → hõljuk ‎(“hovercraft”)

   tõstma ‎(“to raise”) → tõstuk ‎(“lift”)

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 3

May be the same as etymology 2.

Suffix

-k ‎(genitive -gi, partitive -ki)

1. Derives nouns from verbs, or sometimes from other nominals. The derivations can express the following:
   1. the result of an action

      jääma ‎(“to remain”) → jääk ‎(“residue, remainder”)

      saama ‎(“to receive”) → saak ‎(“yield”)

   2. the object of an action

      sööma ‎(“to eat”) → söök ‎(“food”)

      jooma ‎(“to drink”) → jook ‎(“drink, beverage”)

Hungarian

Suffix

-k

1. (plural suffix) -s, -es

   hajó ‎(“ship”) → hajók ‎(“ships”)

   alma ‎(“apple”) → almák ‎(“apples”)

   mese ‎(“fairy tale”) → mesék ‎(“fairy tales”)

2. (personal suffix) Denotes the first-person singular present tense in verb suffixes for all moods (indicative, conditional and subjunctive).

   ír ‎(“to write”) →

   írok ‎(“I write, I am writing”)

   írnék ‎(“I would write”)

   írjak ‎(“I should write”)

3. Pre-historic diminutive suffix.

   lélek ‎(“soul”)

   fészek ‎(“nest”)

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”)

See also

• Category:Hungarian noun forms
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

Lower Sorbian

Suffix

-k

1. used on masculine nouns to form a diminutive

Derived terms

Maltese

Etymology

From both Arabic ـَكَ ‎(-aka) and ـِكِ ‎(-iki)

Alternative forms

• -ek, -ok

Pronoun

-k m, f

1. you (object pronoun, second person singular)

Related terms

• int

Veps

Particle

-k

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References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “а, ли”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika