kiel
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From Middle Dutch kiel, probably borrowed from Middle Low German kēl, Middle English kele, or Middle French quille, ultimately from Old Norse kjǫlr, from Proto-Germanic *keluz.
kiel m (plural kielen, diminutive kieltje n)
From ki- (“interrogative and relative correlative prefix”) + -el (“correlative suffix of manner or degree”).
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Like other interrogative and relative correlatives, kiel can be combined with ajn, the adverbial particle of generality. Kiel ajn thus means however.
Kiel cannot carry the meaning of as in the sense of as though or as if. Instead refer to kvazaŭ.
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Interrogative | Demonstrative | Indefinite | Universal | Negative | |
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ki- | ti- | i- | ĉi- | neni- | ||
Kind of, sort of | -a | kia | tia | ia | ĉia | nenia |
Reason | -al | kial | tial | ial | ĉial | nenial |
Time | -am | kiam | tiam | iam | ĉiam | neniam |
Place | -e | kie | tie | ie | ĉie | nenie |
Motion | -en | kien | tien | ien | ĉien | nenien |
Manner | -el | kiel | tiel | iel | ĉiel | neniel |
Possessive | -es | kies | ties | ies | ĉies | nenies |
Demonstrative pronoun | -o | kio | tio | io | ĉio | nenio |
Amount | -om | kiom | tiom | iom | ĉiom | neniom |
Demonstrative determiner | -u | kiu | tiu | iu | ĉiu | neniu |
From Middle High German *küele, from Old High German kuoli.
kiel (comparative kieler, superlative kielest)
Declension of kiel (see also Appendix:Hunsrik adjectives) | |||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | ||
Weak inflection | nominative | kiel | kiel | kiel | kiele |
accusative | kiele | kiel | kiel | kiele | |
dative | kiele | kiele | kiele | kiele | |
Strong inflection | nominative | kieler | kiele | kieles | kiele |
accusative | kiele | kiele | kieles | kiele | |
dative | kielem | kieler | kielem | kiele |
From Arabic أَكَلَ (ʔakala). The expected basic form would be *ekel or *ikel. The initial vowel was deleted by analogy with the forms of the 1st and 2nd persons, where it had been lost by regular reduction of unstressed vowels. The remaining vowel was then lengthened by analogy with a hollow root. Lengthening also occurred in the imperative. Compare ħa (“to take”).
kiel (imperfect jiekol, past participle mikul)
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