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English
Pronunciation
Noun
kee
- Alternative form of kye (“cow”)
1720, John Gay, “Tuesday”, in Poems on Several Occasions:the western lass that tends the kee
References
Anagrams
Afar
Etymology
Possibly related to Tigrinya ከኣ (käʾa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkeː/,
- Hyphenation: kee
Conjunction
kée
- and, also, including
Usage notes
- If a noun followed by kee ends in a short vowel, that vowel is elongated:
- Úrruu kee agabú yemeeté ― Children 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
- no
Antonyms
East Central German
Pronoun
kee
- (Erzgebirgisch) Alternative form of kaa
Further reading
2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 70:
Estonian
Etymology 1
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Noun
kee (genitive kee, partitive keed)
- necklace
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
kee
- genitive singular of kesi
Mandinka
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
kee
- husband
Naxi
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krəj.
Noun
kee
- (anatomy) foot
References
- Naxi Dictionary by T.M. Pinson, Lijiang 2012
Pennsylvania German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Compare German kein.
Pronunciation
Determiner
kee
- no; not a(n); not one; not any
Declension