Abenaki

Suffix

-ok

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

   agaskw ‎(“woodchuck”) → agask(w)ok ‎(“woodchucks”)

Usage notes

• Used to form the plurals of many words ending in w (which it may suppress), and of some other words (which likely ended in w at an earlier stage of the language).
• See the usage notes at -ak.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ok]

Etymology 1

-o- ‎(“linking vowel”) +‎ -k ‎(“plural suffix”)

Suffix

-ok

1. (plural suffix) -s, -es

   kor ‎(“age”) → korok ‎(“ages”)

   Az elektromos autók hangtalanok. - Electric cars are quiet.

Usage notes

• (plural suffix) Harmonic variants:

  -k is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.

  nő ‎(“woman”) →‎ nők ‎(“women”)

  fa ‎(“tree”) →‎ fák ‎(“trees”)

  csésze ‎(“cup”) →‎ csészék ‎(“cups”)

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

  ház ‎(“house”) →‎ házak ‎(“houses”)

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

  pad ‎(“bench”) →‎ padok ‎(“benches”)

  -ek is added to unrounded front vowel words ending in a consonant

  kert ‎(“garden”) →‎ kertek ‎(“gardens”)

  -ök is added to rounded front vowel words ending in a consonant

  circle →‎ körök ‎(“circles”)

Etymology 2

-o- ‎(“linking vowel”) +‎ -k ‎(“personal suffix”)

Suffix

-ok

1. (personal suffix) Used to form the first-person singular present tense of verbs (indicative mood, indefinite conjugation).

   ír ‎(“to write”) → írok ‎(“I write, I am writing”)

Usage notes

• (personal suffix) Variants:

  -ok is added to back vowel verbs

  -ek is added to unrounded front vowel verbs

  -ök is added to rounded front vowel verbs

  -om is added to back vowel -ik verbs

  -em is added to unrounded front vowel -ik verbs

  -öm is added to rounded front vowel -ik verbs

See also

• Category:Hungarian verb forms
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

Serbo-Croatian

Suffix

-ok ‎(Cyrillic spelling -ок)

1. Suffix appended to the present stem of verbs to form an adjective denoting a feature or a dimension.

   • dub ‎(“to hollow”) + -ok → dubok ‎(“deep”)

See also

• -ak
• -ek