Where does “iki” come from?
iki (Albanian) comes from Albanian ik, from Proto-Albanian eika, from Finnish ka, from Finnish kaa, from Finnish kanssa, from Finnish kansassa, from Finnish kansa, from Proto-Finnic kansa — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
iki (Albanian): I go; I leave; I escape
Ancestry of “iki”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Albanian | ik | second-person singular imperative of iki |
| 2 | Proto-Albanian | eika | — |
| 3 | Finnish | ka | look!; also, too |
| 4 | Finnish | kaa | with; API; two |
| 5 | Finnish | kanssa | with; also, too |
| 6 | Finnish | kansassa | — |
| 7 | Finnish | kansa | people; nation |
| 8 | Proto-Finnic | kansa | people, folk |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | hansō | A gathering, summation, mass, quantity, amount; A... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱómsōd | union; gathering; union, gathering |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |