khi
Translingual
editSymbol
editkhi
English
editNoun
editkhi (plural khis)
- Alternative spelling of chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ), the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
- 1898, Claude Reignier Conder, The Hittites and Their Language, W. Blackwood and Sons, page 249:
- It is known, from the existence in his time1 of the Delphic tripod, that all these letters existed in 480 B.C. ; but on that monument the Khi and Psi differ from the forms used later.
- 1963, Thomas Albert Sebeok, Current Trends in Linguistics, Mouton, page 404:
- The letters upsilon, phi, khi, psi, δ were Greek additions
- 2006, Jonathan M. Hall, A History of the Archaic Greek World, Blackwell Publishing, page 57:
- Greek scripts display notable local characteristics — principally with regard to the shape of letters but also in the matter of the phonetic values attributed to signs such as san, sigma, khi, and psi.
Catalan
editPronunciation
editNoun
editkhi f (plural khis)
French
editPronunciation
editNoun
editkhi m (plural khi or khis)
- chi (Greek letter)
Further reading
edit- “khi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Vietnamese
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editOften compared to Chinese 期 (MC gi), however, there is a register mismatch.
Adverb
editPronoun
editEtymology 2
editSino-Vietnamese word from 欺.
Verb
editkhi
Zou
editPronunciation
editNoun
editkhì
References
edit- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 40
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