kene

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English

Adjective

kene (comparative kener or more kene, superlative kenest or most kene)

  1. Obsolete form of keen.

Anagrams

Chuukese

Etymology

ke- +‎ -ne

Pronoun

kene

  1. (command) you will (soon)

Synonyms

Crimean Tatar

Adverb

kene

  1. again

References

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English cēne (keen, fierce, bold, brave, warlike, powerful; learned, clever, wise),[1] from Proto-Germanic *kōniz (knowledgeable, skilful, experienced, clever, capable), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (to know).

Pronunciation

Adjective

kẹ̄ne

  1. keen
    • c. 1370–1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman; published as “Passus XVII”, in Walter W Skeat, editor, The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, together with the Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest, Secundum Wit et Resoun, by William Langland (about 1362–1393 A.D.): Edited from Numerous Manuscripts, with Prefaces, Notes, and a Glossary, In Four Parts, part III (Langland’s Vision of Piers the Plowman, the Whitaker Text, or Text C; Richard the Bedeles; The Crowned King), London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by N Trübner & Co., 57 & 59, Ludgate Hill, 1873, →OCLC, page 285, lines 82–85:[2]
      For men knoweþ þat couetise · is of ful kene wil, / And haþ hondes and armes · of a long lengthe, / And pourte is a pety þyng · apereþ nat to hus nauele; / A loueliche laik was hit neuere · by-twyne a long and a short.
      For men know well that Covetousness has a keen will / And a very long reach of hands and arms / And Poverty's just a tiny thing, doesn't even reach his navel, / And a good bout was never between tall and short.
    • c. 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knightes Tale” from The Canterbury Tales; published in A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, volume I (Containing Chaucer, Surrey, Wyatt & Sackville), London: Printed for Iohn & Arthur Arch, 23, Gracechurch Street; Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Co., , →OCLC, page 17, column 2:
      Before hire ſtood hire ſone Cupido,
      Upon his ſhoulders winges he had two,
      And blind he was, as is often ſene;
      A bow he bare and arwes bright and kene.
      Before her stood her son Cupid
      Upon his shoulders, he had two wings
      And he was blind, as is often seen
      He bore a bow, and arrows bright and keen.

Descendants

  • English: keen
  • Scots: keen
  • Yola: keen, keéne

References

  1. ^ kẹ̄ne, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ William Langland, George Economou, transl. (1996) “Passus XVI”, in William Langland’s Piers Plowman: The C Version: A Verse Translation (Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 143.

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *kene (whence Tocharian A kaṃ), probably from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- (to sing).

Noun

kene m

  1. melody, tune
  2. (poetry) meter

Further reading

  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “kene”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 206

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish كنه (kene), from Proto-Turkic *kēne (tick). Cognate with Azerbaijani gənə, Kazakh кене (kene), Kyrgyz кене (kene), etc.

Noun

kene (definite accusative keneyi, plural keneler)

  1. tick (arachnid)
    Synonym: sakırga

Declension

Inflection
Nominative kene
Definite accusative keneyi
Singular Plural
Nominative kene keneler
Definite accusative keneyi keneleri
Dative keneye kenelere
Locative kenede kenelerde
Ablative keneden kenelerden
Genitive kenenin kenelerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular kenem kenelerim
2nd singular kenen kenelerin
3rd singular kenesi keneleri
1st plural kenemiz kenelerimiz
2nd plural keneniz keneleriniz
3rd plural keneleri keneleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular kenemi kenelerimi
2nd singular keneni kenelerini
3rd singular kenesini kenelerini
1st plural kenemizi kenelerimizi
2nd plural kenenizi kenelerinizi
3rd plural kenelerini kenelerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular keneme kenelerime
2nd singular kenene kenelerine
3rd singular kenesine kenelerine
1st plural kenemize kenelerimize
2nd plural kenenize kenelerinize
3rd plural kenelerine kenelerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular kenemde kenelerimde
2nd singular kenende kenelerinde
3rd singular kenesinde kenelerinde
1st plural kenemizde kenelerimizde
2nd plural kenenizde kenelerinizde
3rd plural kenelerinde kenelerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular kenemden kenelerimden
2nd singular kenenden kenelerinden
3rd singular kenesinden kenelerinden
1st plural kenemizden kenelerimizden
2nd plural kenenizden kenelerinizden
3rd plural kenelerinden kenelerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular kenemin kenelerimin
2nd singular kenenin kenelerinin
3rd singular kenesinin kenelerinin
1st plural kenemizin kenelerimizin
2nd plural kenenizin kenelerinizin
3rd plural kenelerinin kenelerinin

Further reading

  • kene”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

References

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kene”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN