ki-

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)

ki-

1. wh-, what (interrogative/relative correlative 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]

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ki-

1. (verbal prefix) It indicates actions with outward direction or actions aiming fulfillment.

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

• Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes

• Hungarian verb prefixes in the English Wikipedia

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ɣi/

ki-

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

   Te kikak aka

   Nobody heard it/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 own i and becomes just "-k-", as in this example:

Nikneki se kinia

I want (it) a banana

• yaja (personal pronoun)

• ch-

From Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀-.

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

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

   kitoto — baby (diminutive of mtoto))

   kilema — a crippled person (physical defect)

• Appendix:Swahili noun classes