kee

See also: ke'e

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

kee

1. Alternative form of kye (“cow”)
   • 1720, John Gay, “Tuesday”, in Poems on Several Occasions:

     the western lass that tends the kee

References

• “kee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Eek, eek, eke

Afar

Etymology

Possibly related to Tigrinya ከኣ (käʾa).

Pronunciation

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

Conjunction

kée

1. and, also, including

Usage notes

• If a noun followed by kee ends in a short vowel, that vowel is elongated:

  Úrruu kee agabú yemeeté ― Children 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

• 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)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 192

Comanche

Interjection

kee

1. no

Antonyms

• haa

East Central German

Pronoun

kee

1. (Erzgebirgisch) Alternative form of kaa

Further reading

• 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, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 70:

Estonian

Etymology 1

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Noun

kee (genitive kee, partitive keed)

1. necklace

Declension

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

• kaelakee

Etymology 2

Noun

kee

1. genitive singular of kesi

Mandinka

Alternative forms

• kewo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keː/

Noun

kee

1. husband

Naxi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krəj.

Noun

kee

1. (anatomy) foot

References

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

Pennsylvania German

Alternative forms

• ken

Etymology

Compare German kein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keː/

Determiner

kee

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

Declension

Declension of ken, kee

	singular				plural
	m	f	n
nominative	ken, kee	ken, kee	ken, kee		ken, kee
dative	kem	kenre	kem		ken
accusative	ken, kee	ken, kee	ken, kee		ken, kee