ky
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ky
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Etymology 1 edit
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.
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ky
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
ky (uncountable)
- (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 edit
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ky
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Albanian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Albanian *ka-ei, based on a pronominal element *ka and a demonstrative (see ai).[1]
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Determiner edit
ky m
- this
- Ky është libri im. — Ky libër është imi.
- This is my book. — This book is mine.
- Ky është libri im. — Ky libër është imi.
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References edit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “ky”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 208
Cornish edit
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Noun edit
ky m (plural keun)
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unmutated | soft | aspirate | hard | mixed | mixed after 'th |
ky | gy | hy | unchanged | unchanged | unchanged |
Egyptian edit
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /kiː/
- Conventional anglicization: ky
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Usage notes edit
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.
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By the end of Old Egyptian, the feminine plural fell out of use and the masculine plural became a general plural.
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m
- a kind of monkey
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References edit
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 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 edit
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ky
- Alternative form of Ky (“(initialism of) kommandiittiyhtiö”)
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Hupa edit
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ky (upper case Ky)
- A letter of the Hupa alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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Noun edit
ky
- Alternative form of kie