keme

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *keme, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos. Compare Tocharian A kam.

Noun

keme ?

1. tooth

Turkish

Etymology 1

Cognate with Salar geme.

Alternative forms

• geme

Noun

keme

1. (dialectal) big rat
2. (terminological) Rattus

Further reading

• “keme”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish كمه (keme), from Arabic كَمَأ (kamaʔ).

Noun

keme

1. (dialectal) Terfeziaceae

   Synonym: domalan

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [keme]

Noun

keme

1. firepit, fireplace, stove

Derived terms

• kemetö

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “keme”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “-keme-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021