kev

See also: Kev, keV, and KeV

Volapük edit

Noun edit

kev (nominative plural kevs)

cave, cavern

Declension edit

declension of kev

	singular	plural
nominative	kev	kevs
genitive	keva	kevas
dative	keve	keves
accusative	kevi	kevis
vocative ¹	o kev!	o kevs!
predicative ²	kevu	kevus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

White Hmong edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *kləuX (“road, way”).^[1] Cognate with Western Xiangxi Miao [Fenghuang] geud, Iu Mien jauv.

Possibly related to either Old Chinese 街 (OC *kreː, *kreː, “street, way”) or 道 (OC *[kə.l]ˤuʔ) (B-S), though whether via borrowing or via inheritance from a common source is unclear.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ke˧˦/

Noun edit

kev (classifier: txoj (lengths), tsem (sections of road), ceg (sections or directions of a journey))

road, street
matters, business, affairs
Koj muaj kev dab tsi? ― What is your business? What do you want?

Classifier edit

kev

used to nominalize the word it modifies, used to indicate "the way of ...": -ness
kev mob kev tuag ― sickness and death

References edit

Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 80-1.

^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 275.

[1] Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 275.

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