kee

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See also: ke'e

English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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kee

  1. Alternative form of kye (cow)
    • 1720, John Gay, “Tuesday”, in Poems on Several Occasions:
      the western lass that tends the kee

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Anagrams

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Afar

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Etymology

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Possibly related to Tigrinya ከኣ (käʾa).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkeː/ [ˈkeː]
  • Hyphenation: kee

Conjunction

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kée

  1. and, also, including

Usage notes

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  • If a noun followed by kee ends in a short vowel, that vowel is elongated:
    Úrruu kee agabú yemeetéChildren and women have come.
  • The gender of a noun phrase linked by kee corresponds with the gender of the first element:
    Núm (m) kee barrá (f) yemeeté (m)The man (m) and the woman (f) came (m)
    Barrá (f) kee núm (m) temeeté (f)The woman (f) and the man (m) came (f)

References

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  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “kee”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 192

Comanche

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Interjection

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kee

  1. no

Antonyms

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East Central German

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Pronoun

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kee

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) Alternative form of kaa

Further reading

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  • 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[2], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 70:

Estonian

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Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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kee (genitive kee, partitive keed)

  1. necklace
Declension
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Declension of kee (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative kee keed
accusative nom.
gen. kee
genitive keede
partitive keed keid
keesid
illative keesse keedesse
keisse
inessive kees keedes
keis
elative keest keedest
keist
allative keele keedele
keile
adessive keel keedel
keil
ablative keelt keedelt
keilt
translative keeks keedeks
keiks
terminative keeni keedeni
essive keena keedena
abessive keeta keedeta
comitative keega keedega
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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kee

  1. genitive singular of kesi

Mandinka

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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kee

  1. husband

Naxi

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krəj.

Noun

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kee

  1. (anatomy) foot

References

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  • Naxi Dictionary by T.M. Pinson, Lijiang 2012

Pennsylvania German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Compare German kein.

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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kee

  1. no; not a(n); not one; not any

Declension

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Declension of ken, kee
masculine feminine neuter plural
nominative ken, kee ken, kee ken, kee ken, kee
dative kem kenre kem ken
accusative ken, kee ken, kee ken, kee ken, kee