keta

See also: kẹta, ketä, ķetā, and ķeta

English

Etymology

From Evenki [Term?].

Noun

keta (plural ketas)

1. A small salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) of North America.
   • 1810, John Smith, A System of Modern Geography:

     The rivers in June, July, and August, abound with ketas, and hump-backed salmon.

Anagrams

• Kate, kate, take, teak

Dutch

Noun

keta c (uncountable)

1. (slang) Clipping of ketamine.

   Synonym: ket

Gonja

Etymology

Possibly cognate with Gikyode gita, Chumburung ke̱ta, Nawuri kɩta, Nkonya ɩta.

Noun

keta

1. bow

Japanese

Romanization

keta

1. Rōmaji transcription of けた

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian кета (keta).

Noun

keta f (uncountable)

1. chum salmon

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	keta	ketaua
genitive-dative	-	-i
vocative

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɛta
• Syllabification: ke‧ta

Noun

keta f

1. chain

Further reading

• keta in silling.org

Tocharian B

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćšáytram

Sanskrit क्षेत्र॑ (kṣétra)

Pali khettalbor.

Tocharian B keta

Probably a learned borrowing from Pali khetta.

Noun

keta ?

1. garden, field

Derived terms

• ketāṣṣe (“pertaining to fields, horticultural”)

Further reading

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “keta”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 204