ky

Translingual

Symbol

ky

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kyrgyz.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ky, from Old English cȳ (“cows”), plural of cū (“cow”). Cognate with West Frisian kij (“cows”), Dutch koeien (“cows”), German Kühe (“cows”), Danish køer (“cows”), Icelandic kýr (“cows”). More at cow.

Alternative forms

• kye

Noun

ky

1. (dialectal and Scotland) plural of cow

Derived terms

• kine

Etymology 2

Noun

ky (uncountable)

1. (UK, naval slang) Alternative form of kye (“cocoa”)
   • 2005, Patrick Halliday, Survival, page 24:

     I put on a big fanny of Ky, that is a straight-sided pot of cocoa for them returning.

Etymology 3

English Wikipedia has an article on:

kyr

Wikipedia

Symbol

ky

1. (metrology) Symbol for kiloyear, an SI unit of time equal to 10³ years.

Related terms

• kyr

Anagrams

• YK

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ka-ei, based on a pronominal element *ka and a demonstrative (see ai).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky/

Determiner

ky m

1. this

   Ky është libri im. — Ky libër është imi.

   This is my book. — This book is mine.

Declension

Related terms

• kjo

References

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ,

Noun

ky m (plural keun)

1. (Standard Cornish) dog

Mutation

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: ky

Noun

 m f

1. other, another

Usage notes

Though a noun in Egyptian, ky frequently describes another noun, standing before it in apposition, and it is therefore often best translated into English as a determiner.

ky is an old dual noun, but its ‘dual’ forms are used with singulars when in apposition.

Inflection

Declension of ky

	masculine	feminine
singular	—	—
dual	, ky	, kt, kty
plural	, , , kjwj, kwj, kw	kt

By the end of Old Egyptian, the feminine plural fell out of use and the masculine plural became a general plural.

When ky stands alone rather than in apposition, it has a different plural form, kt-ḫt or kt-ḫj . In Late Egyptian this becomes a new general plural form, kt-ḫw .

Derived terms

• ky-ḏd
• ky-zp
• kt-st

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲕⲉ- (ke-), ⲕⲉ (ke), ⲕⲉⲧ (ket), (plural) ⲕⲟⲟⲩⲉ (kooue)

Noun

 m

1. a kind of monkey

Inflection

Derived terms

• kyt

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 110.4, 110.7–112.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 285
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 64.
• Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, § 98, page 78
• Junge, Friedrich (2005) Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction, second English edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, page 61

Finnish

Noun

ky

1. Alternative form of Ky (“(initialism of) kommandiittiyhtiö”)

Anagrams

• YK

Hupa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʲʰ/

Letter

ky (upper case Ky)

1. A letter of the Hupa alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Mam

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʲ/

Letter

ky (uppercase Ky)

1. A letter of the Mam alphabet.

Middle English

Noun

ky

1. Alternative form of kie