Alternative forms
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Etymology
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Inherited from Old Hindi -कै (-kai), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀤𑁂 (kade), from Sanskrit कृते (kṛte, “having done (locative)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-.
Pronunciation
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-के • (-ke)
- conjunctive suffix for verbs
- बोल (bol, “root form of to speak”) + -के (-ke) → बोलके (bolke, “having spoken”)
References
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- Oberlies, Thomas (2005) A Historical Grammar of Hindi, Grazer Vergleichende Arbeiten, →ISBN, page 44
- Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 433