ky

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ky"

Translingual

Symbol

ky

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kyrgyz.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ky, from Old English (cows), plural of (cow). Cognate with West Frisian kij (cows), Dutch koeien (cows), German Kühe (cows), Danish køer (cows), Icelandic kýr (cows). More at cow.

Alternative forms

Noun

ky

  1. (dialectal and Scotland) plural of cow
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

ky (uncountable)

  1. (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

Symbol

ky

  1. (metrology) Symbol for kiloyear, an SI unit of time equal to 103 years.

Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ka-ei, based on a pronominal element *ka and a demonstrative (see ai).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ky/

Determiner

ky m

  1. this
    Ky është libri im.Ky libër është i imi.
    This is my book. — This book is mine.

Declension

Declension of ky
singular plural
masculine feminine masculine feminine
nominative ky kjo këta këto
accusative këtë këta këto
dative/ablative këtij kësaj këtyre

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “ky”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 208

Cornish

Alternative forms

  • (Standard Written Form) ki

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kiː], [kəi]

Noun

ky m (plural keun)

  1. (Standard Cornish) dog

Mutation

Mutation of ky
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
ky gy hy unchanged unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun

 m f

  1. other, another [since the Pyramid Texts]

Usage notes

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.

Inflection

Declension of ky
masculine feminine
singular

dual
,

ky

,


kt, kty
plural

,
,
,


kjwj, kwj, kw


kt
1 Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun.
2 From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural.
In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

By the end of Old Egyptian, the feminine plural fell out of use and the masculine plural became a general plural.

When ky stands alone rather than in apposition, it has a different plural form, kt-ḫt


or kt-ḫj



. In Late Egyptian this becomes a new general plural form, kt-ḫw


.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Coptic: ⲕⲉ- (ke-), ⲕⲉ (ke), ⲕⲉⲧ (ket), (plural) ⲕⲟⲟⲩⲉ (kooue)

Noun

 m

  1. a kind of monkey

Inflection

Declension of ky (masculine)
singular ky
dual kywj
plural kyw

Derived terms

References

  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 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

Noun

ky

  1. alternative form of Ky ((initialism of) kommandiittiyhtiö)

Anagrams

Hupa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʲʰ/

Letter

ky (upper case Ky)

  1. A letter of the Hupa alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Lutuv

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kɯ̄ɯ̄]

Verb

ky

  1. to dry up

References

  • Amanda Bohnert, Kelly Harper Berkson, Sui Hnem Par (2022) “Vowel Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures[2], volume 3, number 1

Mam

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʲ/

Letter

ky (uppercase Ky)

  1. A letter of the Mam alphabet.

Middle English

Noun

ky

  1. alternative form of kie