-k

See also: Appendix:Variations of "k"

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English -ken, -kien, from Old English -cian, from Proto-West Germanic *-ukōn, *-ikōn, from Proto-Germanic *-ukōną, *-ikōną. Cognate with West Frisian -kje, German -chen, Danish -ke, Swedish -ka, Faroese -ka. Perhaps related to Old English diminutive suffix -uc, -oc. More at -ock.

Suffix

-k

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

   tale, talk; steal, stalk; mire, mirk; hear, hark; fare, firk; peer, perk; yare, yark; gaw, gawk

Etymology 2

From Middle English -ke, from Old English -(u)c and -ca (diminutive suffix). More at -ock.

Suffix

-k

1. (rare, no longer productive) A suffix found in nouns, usually with a diminutive effect.

   chine > chink; stale > stalk

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.

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /-k/

Suffix

-k

1. Marks the ablative case: from
2. Marks the elative case: out of
3. Marks the perlative case: via, through
4. Marks the malefactive case: for ...'s nuisance
5. Marks the subject of a comparison: than
6. (+ én) Marks the material from which an object is made: -en

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 361