kêr

See also: ker, Ker, kér, kër, keř, kær, ķer, ker., and ker-

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton kaer, from Old Breton caer, from Proto-Brythonic *kaɨr (“fort, fortified town”) (compare Cornish ker, Welsh caer), from Proto-Celtic *kagros (“fort”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰ- (“take, seize”). Related to kae (“fence, hedge”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɛːr/

Noun

kêr f (plural kêrioù)

  1. town, city

Inflection
  Mutation of kêr  
Breton consonant mutation
unmutatedsoftaspiratehard
singular kêr gêr c'hêr unchanged
plural kêrioù gêrioù c'hêrioù unchanged

Northern Kurdish

Etymology 1

According to Asatrian, an obvious lexical loan from Armenian կեռ (keṙ).[1]

Alternative forms

Adjective

kêr̄[2]

  1. crooked[3][4]

References
  1. Abbasian, Alikhan; Voskanian, Vardan (1994), “A Kurdish Philosophy of Death: A Kurdish Tale from Armenia”, in Acta Kurdica‎, volume 1, page 145
  2. Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “kêr̄ II”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 318b
  3. Kurdojev, K. K. (1960), “kêr III”, in Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Gosudarstvennoje izdatelʹstvo inostrannyx i nacionalʹnyx slovarej, page 437b
  4. Bakajev, Č. X. (1957), “кер’”, in I. A. Orbeli, editor, Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Gosudarstvennoje izdatelʹstvo inostrannyx i nacionalʹnyx slovarej, page 188b

Further reading
  • Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 516

Pronunciation
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Noun

kêr f

  1. knife[1]

References
  1. Kurdojev, K. K. (1960), “kêr II”, in Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Gosudarstvennoje izdatelʹstvo inostrannyx i nacionalʹnyx slovarej, page 437b
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