kie

See also: -kie and ki'e

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English ky, from Old English cȳ (“cows”), plural of cū (“cow”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaɪ/
    • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪ

Noun

kie

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) Alternative spelling of kye, plural of cow

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for kie in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

ki- (interrogative and relative correlative prefix) + -e (correlative suffix of place)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkie]
  • Audio:
    (file)
  • Rhymes: -ie
  • Hyphenation: ki‧e

Conjunction

kie (accusative kien)

  1. where
    Tie li trovis post unuhora promenado kaj pridemandado la ponton, kie li trovos sian feliĉon.
    There he found, after one hour of walking and interrogating, the bridge, where he would find his happiness.

Adverb

kie (accusative kien)

  1. where

Derived terms

Usage notes

Like other interrogative and relative correlatives, kie can be combined with ajn, the adverbial particle of generality. Kie ajn thus means wherever.

Middle English

Alternative forms

Noun

kie

  1. plural of cou

Descendants

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ke.

Pronoun

kie

  1. who

Further reading
  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English keye, from Old French kay, cail.

Noun

kie

  1. quay

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 50
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