Cognate with Welsh cefn (“back”), Cornish keyn (“back”), Gaulish Cebenna (“ridge, height”) (whence French Cévennes), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kebno- (“back”), from Pre-Celtic *kebn-, which could be related to *kambos (“crooked, bent”).[1]
kein m (plural keinoù)
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From Middle High German kein; from the merger of dechein/dehein (“someone; anyone”), from Old High German dehein; and nechein/nehein (“not any”), from Old High German nihein. Compare Dutch geen, Yiddish קיין (keyn). More at none.
kein
Declension of kein | ||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | |
nominative | kein | keine | kein | keine |
genitive | keines | keiner | keines | keiner |
dative | keinem | keiner | keinem | keinen |
accusative | keinen | keine | kein | keine |
The declension pattern for kein follows that of ein (“a”) and the possessive determiners, as does the declension of adjectives that follow kein. For the most part, the adjectives decline like those that appear after the definite article (the so-called weak declension pattern for German adjectives). However, kein lacks a masculine marker in the nominative case and a neuter marker in the nominative and accusative cases. Accordingly, adjectives following that plain form take an -er or -es to indicate the gender.
From Old Frisian *kēne, from Proto-West Germanic *kōnī, from Proto-Germanic *kōniz (“brave”). Cognate with English keen, Dutch koen, German kühn.
kein
Inflection of kein | ||||
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uninflected | kein | |||
inflected | keine | |||
comparative | keinder keiner | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | kein | keinder keiner |
it keinst it keinste | |
indefinite | c. sing. | keine | keindere keinere |
keinste |
n. sing. | kein | keinder keiner |
keinste | |
plural | keine | keindere keinere |
keinste | |
definite | keine | keindere keinere |
keinste | |
partitive | keins | keinders keiners |
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