-के

Hindi

Alternative forms

• -कर (-kar)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Hindi -कै (-kai), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀤𑁂 (kade), from Sanskrit कृते (kṛte, “having done (locative)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-.

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /keː/

Suffix

-के • (-ke)

1. conjunctive suffix for verbs

   ‎बोल (bol, “root form of to speak”) + ‎-के (-ke) → ‎बोलके (bolke, “having spoken”)

References

• Oberlies, Thomas (2005) A Historical Grammar of Hindi, Grazer Vergleichende Arbeiten, →ISBN, page 44
• Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 433