kis

kis

1. plural of ki

From Dutch kist, from Middle Dutch kiste, from Proto-West Germanic *kistu, from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂.

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kis (plural kiste, diminutive kissie)

1. chest, box

• chis

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kis

1. cheese

• Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

kis c (singular definite kisen, not used in plural form)

1. sulfide mineral

See kissa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkis/, [ˈk̟is̠]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification^(key): kis
• Hyphenation^(key): kis

kis

1. used to attract a cat, often repeated

   kis kis, kippurahäntä

   here, kitty, kitty, "curly-tail"

• “kis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• -ksi

From a Turkic language, compare to Turkish küçük and Turkmen kiçi.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkiʃ]

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• Rhymes: -iʃ

kis (comparative kisebb, superlative legkisebb)

1. small, little

   Synonyms: kicsi, -ka, -ke, -cska, -cske, -ikó (the meaning of ’little’ is often expressed with diminutive suffixes in Hungarian)

The numeral két (“two”) and the adjective kis (“small, little”) can only stand adjectively, before a noun (e.g. két alma (“two apples”) and kis alma (“a small apple”)). If they were to occur on their own (possibly also inflected), predicatively, or in reference to a whole noun phrase, the terms kettő (“two”) and kicsi (“small”) must be used instead: Csak kettő van (“There are only two”), Csak kicsi van (“There is a small one only.”) The same applies to compound numerals like tizenkét and tizenkettő (“twelve”). In terms of distribution, két and kis are like English sick (sick people ~ két/kis alma) while kettő and kicsi resemble ill (they are ill ~ csak kettő/kicsi van). The longer forms are definitely broader in use as they may also occur adjectively, whether for emphasis or as a form of colloquialism. As a rule of thumb, the short variants (két, kis) never stand on their own.

• kis in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Proto-Finnic *ke-, from Proto-Uralic *ke.

kis

1. who

kis

1. alternative form of cos

kis

1. alternative form of kissen

Borrowed from Swedish kis.

• IPA^(key): /kiːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs

kis m (definite singular kisen, indefinite plural kiser, definite plural kisene)

1. (slang) guy, dude

Borrowed from German Kies.

• IPA^(key): /çiːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs

kis m (definite singular kisen, indefinite plural kiser, definite plural kisene)

1. (mineralogy) pyrite

• svovelkis

• “kis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “kis_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “kis_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Borrowed from Swedish kis.

kis m (definite singular kisen, indefinite plural kisar, definite plural kisane)

1. (slang) guy, dude

Borrowed from German Kies.

kis m (definite singular kisen, indefinite plural kisar, definite plural kisane)

1. (mineralogy) pyrite

• svovelkis

• “kis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Back-formation of kísel.

• IPA^(key): /kíːs/

kȋs m inan

1. vinegar

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	kís
genitive	kísa
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	kís
genitive (rodȋlnik)	kísa
dative (dajȃlnik)	kísu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	kís
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	kísu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	kísom

• ócet (archaic)

• “kis”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Unknown origin. Entered broader Swedish via Younger Månsing cant. First attested in 1910.

• IPA^(key): /kiːs/

kis c

1. a boy

   en tuff kis

   a tough boy

• pojke

Borrowed from German Kies, compare Swedish kisel.

• IPA^(key): /ɕiːs/

kis c

1. pyrite, fool's gold

• svavelkis
• pyrit
• kattguld

• → Finnish: kiisu

• kis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kis in Svensk ordbok (SO)

• -isk, sik

From English kiss.

kis

1. kiss

kis

1. what? (nominative, interrogative)
   • 1931, Arie de Jong, Gramat Volapüka, § 256:

     Kis atos binon-li?

     What is this?