Where does “-KID” come from?

-KID (Navajo) comes from Hungarian ki, from Proto-Uralic ke — who.

-KID (Navajo): to slide; {| style="margin-bottom:.1em;...

Definitions

  1. to slide; {| style="margin-bottom:.1em;...

Ancestry of “-KID”, step by step

-KID traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian ki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariankiout; who
2Proto-Uralickewho

via Proto-Athabaskan qə̓t'

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Athabaskanqə̓t'to slip, to slide

Words derived from “-KID”

Every word from Proto-Uralic ke →Every word from Hungarian ki →