keiki

From Hawaiian keiki (“child”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ.ki/

keiki (plural keikis)

1. (Hawaii) child or offspring.
2. (horticulture) young plant in orchids that develops on the shoot in place of flower after flowering

Inherited from Proto-Eastern Polynesian *taiti (“child”). Cognates include Mangarevan teiti, Rapa taeti, Rarotongan taiti, Tuamotuan taaiti.

keiki

1. child
2. offspring
3. boy
4. son
5. nephew
6. calf, colt, kid, cub
7. worker
8. (horticulture) shoot, sucker

• → English: keiki
• → Czech: keiki
• → French: keiki
• → German: Keiki
• → Polish: keiki
• → Russian: кеики (keiki)
• → Ukrainian: кейкі (kejki)

• “keiki” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986

keiki

1. Rōmaji transcription of けいき

Derived from Hawaiian keiki (“child”), possibly via English keiki.

• IPA^(key): /kɛˈi.ki/
• Rhymes: -iki
• Syllabification: ke‧i‧ki

keiki n (indeclinable)

1. (horticulture) keiki (young plant of orchid)

   2015, Maribel Medina, Joanna Ostrowska, transl., Sangre de barro [Krwawy doping], Sonia Draga, →ISBN:

   Wiesz, czy ma jakieś keiki? – Ma dwa czy trzy dzieciaczki. – Okay. Może roślina macierzysta jest w złym stanie i próbuje desperacko się rozmnożyć

   Do you know if it has any keiki? – He has two or three children. – Okay. Maybe the mother plant is in bad shape and trying desperately to reproduce itself