kī- (before vowelskil-,class N first-person plural)

1. thesubject of ahortative verb

   let us

2. thesubject of a negative active transitive verb

   we don't

3. thesubject of a negative active intransitive verb

   we don't

From interrogative and relative pronouns of European languages, such asFrench (qui,que,quoi,quel,quand,comment,combien),Italian (che),Russian(кто,как,какой,куда,когда).

ki-

1. wh-, what (interrogative/relativecorrelative prefix)

• 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”)

ki-

1. what,which (interrogative prefix)

• IPA^(key):[ˈki]

• Audio:

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ki-

1. (verbal prefix) It indicates actions withoutward direction or actions aimingfulfillment.

   megy(“to go”) →kimegy(“to exit, to go out”)

2. construed withmagátand 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”)

• Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes

• Hungarian verb prefixes in the English Wikipedia

ki-

1. Rōmaji transcription ofき

ki- (pluralbi-)

1. class 7 prefix
2. class 7 subject concord
3. used to form name of languages
4. used to form name of villages

• IPA^(key):[ki]

ki- (nominative proclitic,Lontara spellingᨀᨗ)

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

ki-

1. (Bavaria)Alternative form ofgi-

• (Standard)IPA^(key):/ɣi/

ki-

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

   Tekikak aka

   Nobody heardit/him/her

• When the prefix "-ki-" is being preceded by a subject marker o followed by an initial "i" in the verb, it loses its owni and becomes just "-k-", as in this example:

Nikneki se kinia

I want (it) a banana

• yaja (personal pronoun)

• Audio(Kenya):

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FromProto-Bantu*kɪ̀-.

• ch-

ki- (pluralvi-)

1. ki class_(VII) noun prefix and adjective agreement prefix, denoting mostlyartefacts (objects made by humans) and people or objects with physical defects

   kitukizuri ―a nice thing

   kilema ―a crippled person

   1. diminutive prefix

      ‎ki- + ‎mtoto(“child”) → ‎kitoto(“baby”)

2. prefix used to derive adverbs from nouns describing human qualities

   ‎ki- + ‎mtoto(“child”) → ‎kitoto(“childishly”)

   ‎ki- + ‎-shenzi(“barbarous”) → ‎kishenzi(“like a barbarian”)

   1. forms the name of alanguage

      ‎ki- + ‎Arabicسَوَاحِل(sawāḥil,“coastal dwellers”) → ‎Kiswahili(“Swahili language”)

      ‎ki- + ‎Uingereza(“England”) → ‎Kiingereza(“English language”)

3. (prefixed to an entire noun, including its class prefix)adverbial prefix

   ‎ki- + ‎mapenzi(“love”) → ‎kimapenzi(“romantically”)

   • 2022,Muungano wa Tanganyika na Zanzibar: Chimbuko, Misingi na Maendeleo, Serikali ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania,→ISBN:

     […] mwingiliano wa miaka mingikibiashara,kijamii nakiutamaduni katika nchi hizi mbili.

     […] many years of interaction, commercially, societally, and culturally, between these two countries.

4. (prefixed to reduplicated locative word)adverbial prefix

   ‎ki- + ‎juu(“top, surface”) → ‎kijuujuu(“superficially”)

Adverbs derived with this prefix are often used as adjectives with a preceding-a:

‎-a + ‎ki- + ‎mke(“woman”) → ‎-akike(“female”)

‎-a + ‎ki- + ‎mataifa(“nations”) → ‎-akimataifa(“international”)

• Appendix:Swahili noun classes

FromProto-Bantu*kɪ́-.

ki-

1. it,ki class_(VII) subject concord
   • 1973, Mohammed S. Abdulla,Duniani kuna watu, page 3:

     […] na kichwa chake kiwazikilituonyesha nywele zilizochanwa na kupasuliwa njia katikati.

     […] and his uncovered head showed us combed hair with a middle part.

2. verb-initial form of-ki-(“it,ki class_(VII) object concord”)

• (before vowels)ky-

FromProto-Bantu*kɪ́-.

• IPA^(key):/ki-/,[ci-]

ki-

1. class 7 pronominal concord

   ‎ki- + ‎-nu(“this, these”) → ‎kinu(“this (class 7)”)

2. it;class 7 subject concord

   ‎ki- + ‎-kora(“to do”) → ‎kikora(“it (class 7) does”)

3. positive imperative form of-ki-(“it;class 7 object concord”)

   ‎ki- + ‎-ha(“to give”) → ‎kiha(“give it (class 7)”)

• Kaji, Shigeki (2007)A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA),→ISBN, page414

• IPA^(key):[ki-]

ki-

1. Allomorph ofk-(first-person-dual-inclusive non-transitive-agent prefix) used for stems that begin with a consonant and have a first voweli.
2. Allomorph ofk-(first-person-dual-inclusive transitive agent prefix) used for stems that begin with two consonants.