Where does “-kı” come from?

-kı (Turkish) comes from Persian ـگی, from Old Anatolian Turkish ـکو, from Proto-Turkic *-gü — Derives nouns from verbs.

-kı (Turkish): added arbitrarily to words to make pseudo-Hellenisms

Definitions

  1. added arbitrarily to words to make pseudo-Hellenisms

Ancestry of “-kı”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Persianـگیform of the suffix for words that end in the short vowel ه}}}}
2Old Anatolian Turkishـکو—
3Proto-Turkic*-güDerives nouns from verbs

Words derived from “-kı”

Every word from Proto-Turkic *-gü →Every word from Old Anatolian Turkish ـکو →Every word from Persian ـگی →