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  • -ki (after voiceless consonants)

-gi

  1. too, also, even

    Head uut aastat sullegi!

    Happy New Year to you, too!
  2. (in a negative sentence) not ... either, neither; not ... a/an, not ... any

    Ma ei taha anda seda sullegi.

    I do not want to give it to you either.

    Ta ei suuda rääkida ühtegi sõna inglise keeles.

    He/She cannot speak a word in English.
  • The informative "addition" is on the word -gi is suffixed to. Therefore sullegi ("to you, too") in the example means that "you" is not the only one to whom "Happy New Year" is wished.
  • This form is used after voiced consonants and vowels. After voiceless consonants (note: g, b, d, z, and ž are voiceless), the form -ki is used.

-gi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of

-gi

  1. at
    bitahgiat a place among them
    Kinłánídi óltaʼgiat the school in Flagstaff

-gi is more specific than -di. -gi refers to a specific place within a generalized location marked by -di. The approximate location with -di comes first, followed by the specific -gi.

-gi

  1. diminutive suffix; used to form nouns meaning a smaller form of something.
    Antonym: -kó
    pátí (mountain) + ‎-gi → ‎pátígi (hill)
    ena (mammal) + ‎-gi → ‎nan̄gi (domesticated mammal; goat)
    ǹdá (father) + ‎-gi → ‎ǹdági (paternal uncle)
    ǹná (mother) + ‎-gi → ‎ǹnági (maternal aunt)
    yaká (chili pepper) + ‎-gi → ‎yakági (small chili pepper)
  • Alhaji, Gabra Ibrahim A Morphological Analysis of Nouns and Adjectives In The Nupe Language, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *-gô.

-gi

  1. creates diminutives from nouns

From Proto-Germanic *-gin.

-gi

  1. not, no
    maðr (man, person) + ‎-gi → ‎manngi (nobody)
    eitt (one) + ‎-gi → ‎ekki (nothing, nought)

From Ottoman Turkish ـگی (-gi), from Old Anatolian Turkish ـکو (-gü), from Proto-Turkic *-gü.

-gi

  1. Suffix creating a new word related to its root.
    bilmek (to know) + ‎-gi → ‎bilgi (knowledge)
    övmek (to praise) + ‎-gi → ‎övgü (praise)
    çizmek (to draw a line) + ‎-gi → ‎çizgi (line)