әк

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ek"

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic اك
Cyrillic әк
Latin äk

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian آهک (âhak).

Noun

әк • (äk)

  1. lime

Declension

Declension of әк
singular plural
nominative әк (äk) әктер (äkter)
genitive әктің (äktıñ) әктердің (äkterdıñ)
dative әкке (äkke) әктерге (äkterge)
accusative әкті (äktı) әктерді (äkterdı)
locative әкте (äkte) әктерде (äkterde)
ablative әктен (äkten) әктерден (äkterden)
instrumental әкпен (äkpen) әктермен (äktermen)
similative әктей (äktei) әктердей (äkterdei)

Ket

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *ʌkʌŋ (you, second person plural personal pronoun),[1] derived from Proto-Yeniseian *Ha- (generic personal pronoun base) + Proto-Yeniseian *-w (second person singular pronoun formant) + Proto-Yeniseian *-ʌŋ (animate-class plural suffix).

Alternatively, analyzable as a reanalyzed plural form of Ket у (ū, you, second person singular personal pronoun).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /¹ək/, [ɤˑk˧], /¹əkŋ/, [ɤˑk˧ŋ̩]

Pronoun

әк ~ әкӈ (ə̄k ~ ə̄kŋ)

  1. you (second person plural personal pronoun)

References

  1. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 320, 1043

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 418-419
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 423