kene
See also: Appendix:Variations of "kene"
English edit
Adjective edit
kene (comparative kener or more kene, superlative kenest or most kene)
Anagrams edit
Chuukese edit
Etymology edit
Pronoun edit
kene
- (command) you will (soon)
Synonyms edit
Crimean Tatar edit
Adverb edit
kene
References edit
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Adjective edit
kẹ̄ne
- keen
- c. 1370–1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman; published as “Passus XVII”, in Walter W[illiam] 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[icholas] 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., [1795], →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.
- Before her stood her son Cupid
- c. 1370–1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman; published as “Passus XVII”, in Walter W[illiam] 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[icholas] Trübner & Co., 57 & 59, Ludgate Hill, 1873, →OCLC, page 285, lines 82–85:[2]
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ “kẹ̄ne, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ 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 edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Tocharian *kene (whence Tocharian A kaṃ), probably from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- (“to sing”).
Noun edit
kene m
Further reading edit
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish كنه (kene), from Proto-Turkic *kēne (“tick”). Cognate with Azerbaijani gənə, Kazakh кене (kene), Kyrgyz кене (kene), etc.
Noun edit
kene (definite accusative keneyi, plural keneler)
Declension edit
Inflection | ||
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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 |
Further reading edit
- “kene”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
References edit
- 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