kee

See also: ke'e

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Noun

kee

  1. Alternative form of kye (cow)
    • 1720, John Gay, "Tuesday", in Poems on Several Occasions
      the western lass that tends the kee

References

  • kee in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams


Afar

Etymology

Possibly related to Tigrinya ከኣ (käʾa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkeː/
  • Hyphenation: kee

Conjunction

kée

  1. and, also, including

Usage notes

  • If a noun followed by kee ends in a short vowel, that vowel is elongated:
    Úrruu kee agabú yemeetéChildren and women have come.
  • The gender of a noun phrase linked by kee corresponds with the gender of the first element:
    Núm (m) kee barrá (f) yemeeté (m)The man (m) and the woman (f) came (m)
    Barrá (f) kee núm (m) temeeté (f)The woman (f) and the man (m) came (f)

References

  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “kee”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 192

Comanche

Interjection

kee

  1. no

Antonyms


Estonian

Etymology 1

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Noun

kee (genitive kee, partitive keed)

  1. necklace
Declension
Derived terms

Noun

kee

  1. genitive singular of kesi

Mandinka

Alternative forms

  • kewo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /keː/

Noun

kee

  1. husband

Naxi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krəj.

Noun

kee

  1. (anatomy) foot

References

  • Naxi Dictionary by T.M. Pinson, Lijiang 2012

Pennsylvania German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compare German kein.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /keː/

Article

kee

  1. no

Declension

Masculine Feminine Neuter Plural
Nominative ken, kee ken, kee ken, kee ken, kee
Accusative ken, kee ken, kee ken, kee ken, kee
Dative kem kenre kem ken
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