ki-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ki"

Choctaw

Prefix

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

Inflection

Choctaw Person Markers

			class I			class II		class III		class N		imperative
			+s	+C	+V	+C/i	+a/o	+C	+V	+C	+V	+C	+V
first-person	singular	initial	-li			sa-	si-	a-	am-	ak-		n/a
		medial						-sa-	-sam-
	paucal		ī-		il-	pi-		pi-	pim-	kī-	kil-
	plural					hapi-		hapi-	hapim-
second-person	singular		is-	ish-		chi-		chi-	chim-	chik-		∅
	plural		has-	hash-		hachi-		hachi-	hachim-	hachik-		ho-	oh-
third-person			∅			∅		i-	im-	ik-

Esperanto

Etymology

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).

Prefix

ki-

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

Derived terms

• kiu (“which one, who, which/what (with a noun)”)
• kio (“what (without a noun)”)
• kia (“what kind of, what a ...!”)
• kies (“whose”)
• kiel (“how, to what degree”)
• kie (“where”)
• kiam (“when”)
• kiom (“how much”)
• kial (“why”)

Haitian Creole

Prefix

ki-

1. what, which (interrogative prefix)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈki]

• Audio

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Prefix

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

Hungarian verbs prefixed with ki-

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes

References

• Hungarian verb prefixes in the English Wikipedia

Makasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ki]

Pronoun

ki- (nominative proclitic, Lontara spelling ᨀᨗ)

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

See also

Makasar free and bound pronouns

	Independent	Absolutive	Nominative	Possessive
1st sg / 1st pl excl	nakke	-a'	ku-	-ku
1st pl excl (archaic)	kambe	-kang	ki-	-mang
1st pl incl / 2nd sg polite	katte	-ki'	ki-	-ta
2nd sg / pl familiar	kau	-ko	nu-	-nu
3rd sg / pl	ia	-i	na-	-na

Maquiritari

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ki-]

Prefix

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.

Inflection

Maquiritari personal markers (Ye’kwana dialect)

	pronoun	noun possessor/ series II verb argument		postposition object		series I verb argument
						transitive patient	intransitive patient-like		intransitive agent-like	transitive agent
first person	ewü	y-, ∅-, ü-, u-						w-, wi-
first person dual inclusive	küwü	k-, kü-, ku-, ki-								k-, kii-, ki-
second person	amödö	ö-, öy-, o-, oy-, a-, ay-							m-, mi-
first person dual exclusive	nña	y-, ch-, ∅-, i-			chö-	∅-	n-, ni-
third person	tüwü					n-, ni-
distant past third person		—				kün-, kun-, kin-, ken-, küm-, kum-, kim-, kini-
coreferential/reflexive	—	t-, tü-, tu-, ti-, te-				—
reciprocal	—	—	öö-

	series I verb argument: transitive agent and transitive patient
first person > second person	mön-, man-, mon-, möm-, möni-
first person dual exclusive > second person
second person > first person	k-, kü-, ku-, ki-
second person > first person dual exclusive
third person > any person X …or… any person X > third person	see person X in the chart above

Old High German

Prefix

ki-

1. (Bavaria) Alternative form of gi-

Pipil

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ɣi/

Prefix

ki-

1. (personal) it, her, him, third-person singular object marker.

   Te kikak aka

   Nobody heard it/him/her

Usage notes

• 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

Pipil verb object markers

			singular	plural
1st person			nech-	tech-
2nd person			metz-	metzin-
3rd person			ki-	kin-

• yaja (personal pronoun)

Swahili

Alternative forms

• ch-

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀-.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Prefix

ki- (plural vi-)

1. The prefix for noun class 7 denoting artefacts (objects made by humans).
   1. Forms the name of a language.

      Kiswahili — Swahili language

      Kiingereza — English language

   2. Forms a diminutive indicating that something is small or has a physical defect.

      kitoto — baby (diminutive of mtoto))

      kilema — a crippled person (physical defect)

See also

• Appendix:Swahili noun classes