Where does “ik” come from?
ik (Albanian) comes from Proto-Albanian eika, from Finnish ka, from Finnish kaa, from Finnish kanssa, from Finnish kansassa, from Finnish kansa, from Proto-Finnic kansa, from Proto-Germanic hansō — whale, sea monster; abyss.
ik (Albanian): second-person singular imperative of iki
Definitions
- second-person singular imperative of iki
Ancestry of “ik”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proto-Albanian | eika | — |
| 2 | Finnish | ka | look!; also, too |
| 3 | Finnish | kaa | with; API; two |
| 4 | Finnish | kanssa | with; also, too |
| 5 | Finnish | kansassa | — |
| 6 | Finnish | kansa | people; nation |
| 7 | Proto-Finnic | kansa | people, folk |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | hansō | A gathering, summation, mass, quantity, amount; A... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱómsōd | union; gathering; union, gathering |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 14 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 15 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |