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Basque

Etymology

Unknown, virtually the only native word with initial /k/. The dialectal form eke is probably more conservative, which would point to Proto-Basque *eke(e).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ke/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: ke

Noun

ke inan

  1. smoke

Declension

Declension of ke (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive ke kea keak
ergative kek keak keek
dative keri keari keei
genitive keren kearen keen
comitative kerekin kearekin keekin
causative kerengatik kearengatik keengatik
benefactive kerentzat kearentzat keentzat
instrumental kez keaz keez
inessive ketan kean keetan
locative ketako keko keetako
allative ketara kera keetara
terminative ketaraino keraino keetaraino
directive ketarantz kerantz keetarantz
destinative ketarako kerako keetarako
ablative ketatik ketik keetatik
partitive kerik
prolative ketzat

Derived terms

Further reading

  • ke”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
  • ke”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Bassa

Pronunciation

Adverb

ke

  1. yet
  2. still

Noun

ke

  1. eagle

References

Borôro

Pronunciation

Noun

ke

  1. food
  2. bat

Chuukese

Pronoun

ke

  1. you (singular)

Adjective

ke

  1. you are

Synonyms

present and past tense negative tense future negative future distant future negative determinate
singular first person ua use upwe usap upwap ute
second person ka
ke
kose
kese
kopwe
kepwe
kosap
kesap
kopwap
kepwap
kote
kete
third person a ese epwe esap epwap ete
plural first person exclusive aua ause aupwe ausap aupwap aute
inclusive sia sise sipwe sisap sipwap site
second person oua ouse oupwe ousap oupwap oute
third person ra
re
rese repwe resap repwap rete


Czech

Pronunciation

Preposition

ke

  1. to
  2. toward, towards

Synonyms

Further reading

  • ke”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • ke”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Etymology

From French que, Italian che.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

ke

  1. that

Finnish

Noun

ke

  1. Abbreviation of keskiviikko.

Anagrams

Guaraní

Noun

ke

  1. dream

Verb

ke

  1. to sleep

Conjugation

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From French que (that).

Pronoun

ke

  1. (relative, object of relative clause) that
Usage notes
  • This word is often omitted.

Etymology 2

From French queue (tail).

Noun

ke

  1. tail

Etymology 3

From French que (than).

Preposition

ke

  1. than
Alternative forms

Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai

Particle

ke

  1. (Yavapai) not, negation particle

References

  • Corinna Handschuh, A typology of marked-S languages

Hawaiian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *te (compare Maori te)

Pronunciation

Article

ke (definite)

  1. the

Usage notes

  • Modifies words which begin with the letters 'k', 'a', 'e', and 'o'.

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of ke – see (“street; market; fair; etc.”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of ).
For pronunciation and definitions of ke – see (“to add; more”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of ).

Ido

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Esperanto ke, from French que, Portuguese que, Spanish que, Italian che.

Conjunction

ke

  1. that
    Me konocas ke tu volas helpar me.
    I know that you want to help me
Usage notes

The conjugation can also be used in combination with a preposition to make it a conjugation. See: pro ke, por ke, dum ke, depos ke, and til ke.

Etymology 2

From k +‎ -e.

Noun

ke (plural ke-i)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter K/k.
See also

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay ke, from Old Malay ka. For the verb sense, due to the dropping of preceding verb pergi (to go).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): , (colloquially, sometimes before words starting in consonants)
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation:

Preposition

  1. to
    Semalam aku pergi ke rumah teman.
    Last night I went to a friend’s home.

Verb

ke

  1. (colloquial) to go
    Tadi malam aku ke rumah teman.
    Last night I went to a friend’s home.

See also

Italian

Etymology

Shorter, written form of che

Pronoun

ke

  1. (informal, often in Internet chat or in SMS messages) who; which; what; that; than

Japanese

Romanization

ke

  1. The hiragana syllable (ke) or the katakana syllable (ke) in Hepburn romanization.

Kholosi

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Postposition

ke

  1. accusative case marker
  2. dative case marker
    Yunos mānāske nāmo nevisay
    Yunes wrote a letter to his mother.

References

  • Rezaei, Tahereh (2020) First notes on the syntax of Kholosi as a heritage language in the south of Iran, Hormozgan Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts & Tourism Organization

Kongo

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *kéè.

Adjective

-ke

  1. small , little

Ladino

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish que (that), from Latin quid (what), but usurping all the roles of Latin quod. Cognate with English who and Spanish que.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

ke (Hebrew spelling קי)[1]

  1. that
    • 2002, Gad Nassi, editor, En Tierras Ajenas Yo Me Vo Murir: Tekstos Kontemporanos en Djudeo-espaniol : Leyenda de Una Lingua - Haketia - Kuentos. Memorias - Meliselda - Oki Oki, Isis, →ISBN, page 414:
      Los amigos i los parientes a pareser, avian eksplikado a muestra mama ke, achakes del numero chiko de famiyas de la komunitad djudiya de Pashabahche, no se puedia asperar de tener un ayudo de eya, i ke kalia ke mirara de bushkar otrun remedio.
      The friends and relatives in position, they had explained to our mother that, because of the small number of families from Pashabahche’s Jewish community, one could have no hope of getting help from it, and that one shall need to search for one more remedy.
    • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim, volumes 26–28, page 7:
      Una konversa se avia mizmo salvado de la muerte, en afirmando ke, achakes de su fervor katoliko avia mojado su rida kon esta sangre.
      One convert had saved herself from death by declaring that, because of her Catholic fervour, she had washed her hands of this blood.
      (literally, “One convert had herself saved from the death in affirming that because of her Catholic fervour she has soaked her handkerchief with this blood.”)
  2. as; because; for (indicating a reason)
    Coordinate term: porke
    • 2013, Myriam Moscona, Jacobo Sefamí with Martín Fierro, José Hernández, Por mi boka: Textos de la diáspora sefardí en ladino, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, →ISBN, page 222:
      [] I el kijo azer lo mizmo, komo un buen kavayero, adjustar al suyo el nombre de la suya, i yamarse “don Kishot de la Mancha”, ke asegun el, deklarava klaramente su linaje i patria, i la onorava en tomandola por alkunya.
      And he kept repeating himself, like a good knight, adding to his name the name of his homeland, and calling himself ‘don Koshot de la Mancha’, as according to him, it was clearly declaring his lineage and homeland, and he was esteeming it in treating it like family.
  3. may; might (indicating desire or permission, usually used with the subjunctive)
    Ke tenga muncha azlaha en tu vida i en la otra.
    May you have much success in this life and the next.
    • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar, Nur Afakot, page 28:
      Este es un kuento atado a una eksperiensa emosional sovrenatural, ke sea una eksperiensa emosional sovrenatural, ke sea una eksperiensa emosional relijioza personal, komo por exemplo un kuento sovre un santo sovrenatural o sovre un amahamiento mirakolozo, ke se trate de una eksperiensia emosional de un enkontro kon un ser sovrenatural o de un ser de otro mundo, komo un guerko o un fantazma.
      This is an account connected to an emotional supernatural experience, whether it be an emotional supernatural experience, or a personal emotional religious experience, as for example an account about a supernatural saint or about a miracle cure, it is about an emotional experience from an encounter with a supernatural being or a being from another world, like a demon or a ghost.

Pronoun

ke m (Hebrew spelling קי)[1]

  1. who; that
    Coordinate terms: ken, kualo
    • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar, page 401:
      [] i el ke izo mas empresión fue naturalmente Haím Refael, ke kontó de la Shoá i de estadía en Auschwitz i de komo kedó en vida.
      And the one who made the biggest impression was, naturally, Haím Refael, who recounted the Shoah, the stay in Auschwitz, and how he kept alive.
  2. that; whom
    Coordinate terms: ken, kualo
    • 19th century, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, edited by Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi, Stanford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 222:
      I despues, respondyo Riza Pasha: "Sinyor, estos 2 sinyores son los ke vos avli ayer ke syempre estan mirando en el byen de la sivdad sin dingun enteres".
      And then Riza Pasha replied, ‘Sir, these are the two gentlemen whom I mentioned to you yesterday who are always looking after the city’s welfare irrespective of interest.’
  3. (interrogative) what
    • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim, volumes 26–28, page 36:
      Onde vemos ke en esta parasha de "Bo" dize el pasuk: "i sera kuando dirian a vozotros guestros ijos: ke es isto?".
      Where we see that in this parashah of Bo, the verse says: ‘and when shall it be that your children would say to you: what is this?’
  4. (exclamative) such; what (a) (used to form exclamations indicating that something is remarkable, in either a good or ungood way)

Preposition

ke (Hebrew spelling קי)[1]

  1. than
    • 2002, Aki Yerushalayim, numbers 68–72, page 45:
      Sus ultimas letras ya kontienen un espanyol bastante mas korrekto ke las primeras¹: []
      [Somebody’s] latest letters now have Spanish that is much more correct than the first.
  2. like; as
    Coordinate term: komo
    • 2003, Sefárdica, numbers 14–16, Centro de Investigación y Difusión de la Cultura Sefaradí, page 83:
      Tomaremos de aki adelantre unos kuantos egzempios, eskojidos por kazualidad, por darmos una chika idea de la rikeza kulturala eskondida en las palavras ebreas ke en ladino.
      We shall take henceforth some examples, selected by chance, to give us a little idea of the cultural richness hidden in the Hebrew words as in Ladino.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 ke”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Dov Cohen and Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald (2019 June 19) “Coṃpendio delas šeḥiṭót (Constantinople ca. 1510): The First Judeo-Spanish Printed Publication”, in Journal of Jewish Languages, volume 7, number 1, Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, →DOI, →ISSN, page 4651

Lutuv

Pronunciation

IPA(key):

Noun

ke

  1. back (of body)

References

  • Amanda Bohnert, Kelly Harper Berkson, Sui Hnem Par (2022) “Vowel Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures, volume 3, number 1

Malay

Etymology 1

Phonetic spelling of -kah in a Johor-Riau accent.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

ke (Jawi spelling ک)

  1. (informal) or
    Synonym: atau
    Besar ke kecil?
    Big or small?
    Boleh ke tak?
    Can you do it (or not)?

Suffix

ke (Jawi spelling ک)

  1. (informal) used on modal verbs, adverbs, verbs and nouns to form questions
    Boleh ke aku pinjam fon kau?
    Can I borrow your phone?
    Selalu ke cikgu tanya soalan macam tu?
    Is it often that the teacher ask questions like that?
    Abang kau dah beli ke PS5 yang dia kata nak beli tu?
    Has your brother bought the PS5 that he said he was going to buy?
    Kau ke yang dapat markah 100% dekat ujian baru-baru ni tu?
    Are you the one that got a score of a 100% for the recent test?
Usage notes

Note that unlike -kah, ke isn't written conjoined with a preceding word.

Etymology 2

From Old Malay ka, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ka.

Pronunciation

Preposition

ke (Jawi spelling ک)

  1. to
    Antonym: dari
    Semalam aku pergi ke rumah kawan.
    Yesterday I went to a friend’s house.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Indonesian: ke

Etymology 3

From English kay.

Pronunciation

Noun

(plural ke-ke)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.
Synonyms
  • kaf (Jawi letter name)
  • ke (Indonesian)

See also

Mandarin

Romanization

ke

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .
  2. Nonstandard spelling of .
  3. Nonstandard spelling of .
  4. Nonstandard spelling of .
  5. Nonstandard spelling of kê̄.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mapudungun

Noun

ke (Raguileo spelling)

  1. liver

References

  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Mbyá Guaraní

Verb

ke

  1. to sleep

Conjugation

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ke

  1. (dialectal, Eastern Norway) alternative form of kva (what)

Old French

Pronoun

ke

  1. Alternative form of que

Conjunction

ke

  1. Alternative form of que

Pali

Alternative forms

Pronoun

ke

  1. masculine nominative/accusative plural of ka

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese querer and Spanish querer and Kabuverdianu kré.

Verb

ke

  1. to want, to wish
  2. to love, to like

Romani

Conjunction

ke

  1. because

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adjective

-ke (declinable)

  1. female

Declension

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish que.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

ke (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒ) (colloquial)

  1. even if; whether
    Synonyms: kahit, man, kahiman
    ke gantoeven if this is like this

Etymology 2

Possibly from Mandarin ().

Pronunciation

Noun

(Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒ) (botany)

  1. kudzu (Pueraria montans var. lobata)

Further reading

  • ke”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tocharian A

Etymology

Compare Tocharian B kaiyye.

Noun

ke

  1. chance, opportunity

Tocharian B

Etymology

Possibly related to the intensifying suffix -k(ä).

Particle

ke

  1. intensifying particle

Further reading

  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ke”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 201

Tooro

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *kéè.

Pronunciation

Adjective

-ke (declinable)

  1. small, little
    Synonym: -taito
    Antonym: -kooto

Usage notes

When used in the plural, -ke can mean 'few' or 'small number of', in addition to 'small'. Thus, emiti mike can mean 'small trees' or 'a few trees'.

Declension

Inflected forms of -ke
Noun class indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
1/2 muke bake omuke abake
3/4 muke mike omuke emike
5/6 like make erike amake
7/8 kike bike ekike ebike
9/10 nke nke enke enke
11/10 ruke oruke
12/14 kake buke akake obuke
13 tuke otuke
14/6 buke make obuke amake
15/6 kuke okuke
16 hake ahake
  • -keeha (to grow small; to contract)

References

Turkish

Pronunciation

Noun

ke

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.

See also

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

ke ()

  1. saliva/drool that flows out when sleeping
    Mồm dính ke kìa.
    You have spit around your mouth.

Xerénte

Pronunciation

Noun

ke

  1. honey

References

  • Rinaldo de Mattos, Fonêmica Xerente

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

Particle

ke

  1. quotative particle

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ke”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Verb

  1. to cry; to shout; to scream
    Mo sí ọI cry out to you
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

  1. to cut
    Synonym:
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Particle

  1. (Yagba) Alternative form of
    Ìghọn ọlọ́ṣà gbe arù rẹ̀ rèThe thieves did not steal his luggage

Zulu

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ɠe/?

Verb

-ke?

  1. (auxiliary) sometimes, occasionally
    Ake akhale.
    Sometimes he cries.
  2. (auxiliary) ever
    Wake wabona ibhubesi?
    Have you ever seen a lion?
Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Conjunction

ke

  1. (that one) dare to, let; indicates threatening
    Ke azame-nje!
    Just let him try!

References