-ika
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ika f (noun-forming suffix)
Derived terms
[edit]branch of science or study
Further reading
[edit]- -ika in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From -i (diminutive suffix) -ka (diminutive suffix).[1]
Suffix
[edit]-ika
- (diminutive suffix) Added to a noun to express smallness, youth, or endearment.
Usage notes
[edit]- (diminutive suffix) Variants:
- -ika is added to back-vowel words
- -ike is added to front-vowel words
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ika
- A distinguishable foreign word ending in nouns. In this role, it is not considerable as an independent Hungarian suffix.[2]
- logika (“logic”)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ -ika in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
- ^ Attila Mártonfi: The System of the Hungarian Suffixes, Theses of PhD Dissertation, Budapest, 2006
Polish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek -ική (-ikḗ). Doublet of -ca.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ika f
- -ics, typically causing antepenultimate stress, or pentulimate stress colloquially
Declension
[edit]Declension of -ika
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- -ika in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ika (Cyrillic spelling -ика)
Derived terms
[edit]Swahili
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ika (mid vowel harmony variant -eka)
- stative suffix
- (after a verb) -able
- (after a verb) to have undergone the action
- (after an adjective or noun) to be or have a characteristic of
Usage notes
[edit]This suffix is often similar in meaning to the passive suffix -wa, but it differs in that it cannot take an agent:
- Kiti kimevunjwa na mtoto. ― The chair has been broken by the child.
- Kiti kimevunjika. ― The chair is broken.
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Czech/ɪka
- Czech lemmas
- Czech suffixes
- Czech noun-forming suffixes
- Czech feminine suffixes
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian suffixes
- Hungarian diminutive suffixes
- Polish terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Polish learned borrowings from Ancient Greek
- Polish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Polish doublets
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ika
- Rhymes:Polish/ika/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish suffixes
- Polish feminine suffixes
- Polish singularia tantum
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian suffixes
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili suffixes
- Swahili terms with usage examples