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 cȳ (“cows”), plural of cū (“cow”). Cognate with West Frisian kij (“cows”), Dutch koeien (“cows”), German Kühe (“cows”), Danish køer (“cows”), Icelandic kýr (“cows”). More at cow.

Alternative forms

• kye

Noun

ky

1. (dialectal and Scotland) plural of cow

Derived terms

• kine

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.

Related terms

• kyr

Anagrams

• YK, Yk, Yk., yk

Albanian

Etymology

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

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

Related terms

• kjo

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

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: ky

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

• ky-ḏd
• ky-zp
• kt-st

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

• kyt

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

• YK

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