kete

From Maori kete.

kete (plural ketes)

1. (New Zealand) A traditional Maori woven basket. [from 19th c.]
   • 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 157:

     He leans over his seat and picks up the kete, full of sandwiches and teamaking gear.

ke- +‎ -te

kete

1. alternative form of kote

kete

1. genitive plural of kesi

From Proto-Oceanic *kete (“basket”).

kete

1. basket

• rawhi
• roroi
• taiaroa
• raurau (“basket, container”)

• rahu (“food collection basket”)
• rourou (“food basket”)

• “kete” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

kete

1. (Kent) alternative form of kyte

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kete class IX (plural kete class X)

1. (games) a playing piece or dice

kete

1. quietly

kete

1. alternative form of ket (“whose”)

From Ottoman Turkish كته (kete). Related to Middle Armenian գաթայ (gatʻay), which see for more.

kete

1. gata

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գաթայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 500

Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *dede or Proto-Yoruba *gede, from Proto-Edekiri *dede, ultimately from Proto-Yoruba *dVdV, see Olukumi gèdè, Itsekiri dede, Igala dẹdẹ

IPA^(key): /kē.tē/

kete

1. (Ekiti, Idanre, Western Akoko) all, every, everyone, everything

   Kete ulé sị́kọ́n? ― What about everyone in the house?

This noun often looks and acts as a qualifier or determiner, and while usually before nouns, but less commonly comes after. Some examples:

• Kete ọmọ Èkìtì lị ị́ jẹ ịyán ― All Ekiti people eat pounded yam
• Ulé kete ria ni ― The house belongs to all of us

• Èkìtì kete