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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English kie, equivalent to ky + -en (plural ending), a double plural.
Noun
kine
- (archaic or dialectal) plural of cow
1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings , New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, book V, page 40:Pippin could see all the Pelennor laid out before him, dotted into the distance with farmsteads and little walls, barns and byres, but nowhere could he see any kine or other beasts.
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Etymology 2
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Noun
kine (plural kines)
- (physics) The unit velocity in the CGS system, equal to one centimeter per second.
1890, E/MJ, Engineering and Mining Journal, volumes 49-50, page 169:It may be well to note that a mile per hour is equal to 44.7 kines, and that accordingly a sharp walking pace may attain 200 kines […]
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Fula
Noun
kine
- (Adamawa) nose
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Hawaiian Creole
Noun
kine
- a kind of, type of
Da truck is small kine weird.- The truck is a little bit weird.
Salar
Noun
kine
- Alternative form of kiyne
Unami
Etymology
From
- /kin-/:sharp
- /-e/: inanimate intransitive suffix
- /-w/ (suffix): third person suffix
Cognate with Munsee kíineew (“it is sharp”), Massachusett kēnai (“it is sharp”), Ojibwe giinaa (“it is sharp”), Malecite-Passamaquoddy kineyu (“it is sharp”).
Verb
kine inan (vii)
- (inanimate, intransitive) it is sharp
References
- Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “kine”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project