khi

See also: khí, khỉ, khì, and KHI

Translingual

Symbol

khi

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Khoisan languages.

English

Noun

khi (plural khis)

1. 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈki]

Noun

khi f (plural khis)

1. chi; the Greek letter Χ (lowercase χ)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki/

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Noun

khi m (plural khi or khis)

1. chi (Greek letter)

Further reading

• “khi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [xi˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kʰɪj˧˧] ~ [xɪj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kʰɪj˧˧] ~ [xɪj˧˧]

Etymology 1

Cognate with Muong Bi khây.

Often compared to Chinese 期 (MC gi), however, there is a register mismatch.

Adverb

khi • (欺)

1. when

Pronoun

khi • (欺)

1. when

   Synonym: lúc

Etymology 2

Verb

khi

1. to slight, to despise

Zou

Khi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰi˧˩/

Noun

khì

1. necklace

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 40