kā̆ , ke, kom

    kā̆ , ke, kom

    English meaning: a kind of particle (all right?)

    Deutsche Übersetzung: Partikel, perhaps etwa “probably!”

    Material: O.Ind. kám behind Dativen from Personen (as dat. commodi; so also once Av. kąm) and from Abstrakten (as finaler dative), also beim Imper., after the particles nú, sú, hí, and in indik. Hauptsätzen; O.C.S. kъ(n) with dat. “to”. Nasallos Gk. κᾱ, κε (κεν kann ν ἐφελκυστικόν have) perhaps “probably”, Modalpartikel, Slav. -ka (-ko, -ku, -ki, -kъ, -če, -či, -ču), Anhängepartikel esp. by Pron., beim Imper. and by adv., also probably ko- as preposition in Verbal- and nominal compound (e.g. Russ. kóvorotъ “Halswirbel, Genick”); Lith. -ki (perhaps originally ke), -k beim Imper. (e.g. dúo-ki, -k “gib!”).

    References: WP. I 326, Schwyzer Gk. II 568, Trautmann 111f.