-ik

-ik

1. A suffix used to form the plurals of some animate words.

• Often used to form the plurals of words (especially nouns denoting people who have particular occupations or activities) which end in the consonant d or t (which causes the d or t to mutate into j: nodabônkad, "baker" → nodabônkajik, "bakers"); only rarely used to form the plurals of words ending in other letters (nodkwaag, notkwahag, "pilot" → nodkwaagik, notkwahagik, "pilots").
• See the usage notes at -ak.

-ik

1. First-person plural present simple copula
   1. [we] are

• -rik (after vowels)

-ik

1. Partitive suffix.

   ‎etxe (“house”) + ‎-ik → ‎etxerik (“any house?”)

2. Adverbial suffix, -ly

   ‎poz (“joy”) + ‎-ik → ‎pozik (“happy, happily”)

• “-ik” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

From Proto-Finnic *-ikkoi.

-ik (genitive -iku, partitive -ikut)

1. Derives nouns from numerals, with the meaning "group of".

   kaks (“two”) → kaksik (“twin, group of two”)

   kolm (“three”) → kolmik (“triplet, group of three”)

   neli (“four”) → nelik (“quadruplet, four of a kind (poker), group of four”)

Borrowed from Latin -icus and Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós).

• IPA^(key): /-ɪk/

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-ik

1. forms feminine nouns referring to fields of study
2. forms feminine collective nouns
3. forms feminine nouns referring to characteristics

• IPA^(key): [ik]
• Rhymes: -ik

Adjective suffix.

-ik

1. (adjective-forming suffix) A unique identification suffix (often used together with the definite article a/az (“the”)). Used with (chiefly comparative, sometimes superlative) adjectives, answering the question melyik? (“which?”), specifying one out of a specific set of things/persons.

   más (“different”) ― (egy) másik (“another one”) ― a másik (“the other one”)

   rosszabb (“worse”) → a rosszabbik (“the worse one”)

   a kisebbik rossz(at választja) ― (to choose) the lesser of two evils

   A nagyobbik szobában Péter lakik. ― Peter lives in the bigger room (out of a specific set of rooms).

Possessive suffix.

-ik

1. possessive suffix for multiple possessions if there is no noun for the possessor:
   1. their ……-s (third-person plural; the pronoun ő (“s/he”) (!) being optional for emphasis)

      kapu (“gate”) → a kapuik, az ő kapuik (“their gates”)

      érme (“coin”) → az érméik, az ő érméik (“their coins”)

   2. (formal) your ……-s (second-person plural, grammatically resembling the third person plural)

      kapu (“gate”) → a kapuik (“your [formal, plural] gates”), alternatively: az önök kapui, a maguk kapui (!)

      érme (“coin”) → az érméik (“your [formal, plural] coins”), alternatively: az önök érméi, a maguk érméi (!)

• (possessive suffix) Variants:

  -ik is added to words ending in a vowel except -i. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.

  -aik is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -eik is added to some front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -jaik is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant or the vowel -i

  -jeik is added to some front-vowel words ending in a consonant or the vowel -i

Personal suffix.

-ik

1. (personal suffix) The ending of a large group of passive/reflexive verbs in indefinite third-person singular present tense, their dictionary form.

   Sokat utazik. ― S/he travels a lot.

2. (personal suffix) Used to form the definite third-person plural present indicative of (front-vowel) verbs.

   Coordinate term: (for back-vowel verbs) -ják

   Megnézik a filmet. ― They will see the movie. [from megnéz (“to look at, to see”), indicating a definite object, here required by a (“the”)]

The above two senses are usually not difficult to distinguish as long as one knows whether the lemma of the verb ends in -ik. If it does, it is usually not a transitive verb (since most -ik verbs have a passive or reflexive meaning) so it will be probably an (indefinite) singular. On the other hand, if the lemma of the verb has no -ik, the only option is the definite plural.

Eszik (“to eat”) is one of the few -ik verbs that are transitive. In such a case, one needs to rely on the definiteness of the object. For more details, see its Usage notes.

• (personal suffix, definite conjugation) See harmonic variants in the table below.

• Category:Hungarian verbs ending in -ik
• Category:Hungarian noun forms
• Appendix:Hungarian possessive suffixes
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

From English -ic, from Old French -ique, from Latin -icus, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos, formed with the i-stem suffix *-i- and the adjectival suffix *-kos, *-ḱos.

-ik

1. -ic.

   analitik ― analytic

The suffix -ik often appears on loaned words from English. Many words with this suffix have synonyms with suffix -is which were loaned from Dutch. However, the Dutch-loaned -is is seemingly preferred over English-loaned -ik. Never used in chemical compound sense.

• -ikal
• -is
• -at

Borrowed from English -ic, from Old French -ique, from Latin -icus, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos, formed with the i-stem suffix *-i- and the adjectival suffix *-kos, *-ḱos.

-ik (Jawi spelling -يک)

1. -ic.

   saintifik ― scientific

The suffix -ik often appears in loanwords from English. Many words with this suffix have synonyms with the suffix -is many of which were loaned from Dutch through Indonesian, although not all of them are (e.g. gramatis).

Borrowed from English -ics.

-ik (Jawi spelling -يک)

1. -ics.

   linguistik ― linguistics

• -ikal
• -is
• -at

-ik

1. Alternative form of -y

From Old French -ique, from Latin -icus, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos. Doublet of -y.

• -ike, -ique, -ic, -ice

• IPA^(key): /iːk/, /ik/

-ik

1. Forms nouns denoting a quality from adjectives; -ic.

• English: -ic

• “-ī̆k, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-2.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ikъ.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /iːk/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ik/

-ik

1. forms nouns, often diminutive

• Polish: -ik

• -yk

Inherited from Old Polish -ik, from Proto-Slavic *-ikъ.

• IPA^(key): /ik/

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• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: ik

-ik m

1. forms nouns, often diminutive

   ‎słodki + ‎-ik → ‎słodzik

(personal nouns)

(other nouns)

• -ik in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ikъ.

-ik (Cyrillic spelling -ик)

1. Suffix appended to words to create a masculine noun, usually denoting a profession, performer, place, object, tool or a feature.

• -nik
• -enik
• -ovnik
• -evnik

• IPA^(key): [ik]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ikъ.

-ik m

1. alternative form of suffix -ík after roots in a long vowel or a diphthong

   ‎vták + ‎-ik → ‎vtáčik

   ‎hriešny + ‎-ik → ‎hriešnik

• -ík
• -ník ~ -nik
• -íčka ~ -ička

Borrowed from Latin -icus or Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós).

-ik m

1. fictive suffix in case when both an occupational name in -ik and its base noun were borrowed

   ‎akadémia + ‎-ik → ‎akademik

• -ička

• Declension in case of an inanimate noun according to the declension pattern dub:

• Declension in case of an animate noun according to the declension pattern chlap:

• Pauliny, Eugen - Ružička, Jozef - Štolc, Jozef (1968), Slovenská gramatika (in Slovak), 5th edition, Bratislava: Slovenské pedagogické nakladateľstvo, pages 145-152
• -ik in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

From Ottoman Turkish ـیق (-ik), from Proto-Turkic *-uk.

• IPA^(key): /ic/

-ik

1. Form of -ık after the vowels E / İ.

   ‎değiş- (“intransitive; to change”) + ‎-ik → ‎değişik (“different, varied”)

From French -ique, from Latin -icus.

• IPA^(key): /ic/

-ik

1. -ic
2. -ical

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Presumably related to Finnish -ko.

-ik

1. Interrogative particle. It is attached to the finite verb in yes-no questions, which is then placed first in the sentence.

-ik

1. Used to form adjectives and determiners.