-hko

== Blackfoot == === Etymology 1 === Clipping of ksááhko- (“land, earth, dirt”). ==== Suffix ==== -hko creates inanimate class place names ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === From hk- (“to get, obtein”) +‎ -o (animate transitive verbaliser). ==== Suffix ==== -hko creates animate transitive verbs related to providing ===== Derived terms ===== === References === Frantz, Donald G.; Genee, Inge (2016–2023), Blackfoot Online Dictionary‎[1], University of Toronto Press; Donald G. Frantz; Norma J. Russell (1989), Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes, 3rd edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, published 2017; Weber, Natalie; Derrick, Donald (2025), “A Phonetic Description of Káínai Blackfoot”, in Language Documentation & Conservation‎[2], volume 19, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, pages 248–304. == Finnish == === Etymology === From earlier -hka-i (with later labialization, see -i), from a dialectal variant of -kka (-ka) +‎ -i. The -h- may be from *-eh (see -e). The suffix has been compared to Erzya -шка (-ška) (comparative case suffix), likely from Proto-Mordvinic *-ža +‎ *-ka. === Suffix === -hko (front vowel harmony variant -hkö, linguistic notation -hkO) -ish; quite, relatively, somewhat ‎nuori (“young”) + ‎-hko → ‎nuorehko (“youthful, relatively young”) ‎vanha (“old”) + ‎-hko → ‎vanhahko (“oldish, relatively old, elderly”) ==== Usage notes ==== The adjectives with this suffix are usually considered incomparable. ==== Declension ==== === References === === Anagrams === KHO