kie
See also: -kie and ki'e
English
Etymology
From Middle English ky, from Old English cȳ (“cows”), plural of cū (“cow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -aɪ
Noun
kie
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkie]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -ie
- Hyphenation: ki‧e
Conjunction
kie (accusative kien)
- 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.
Usage notes
Like other interrogative and relative correlatives, kie can be combined with ajn, the adverbial particle of generality. Kie ajn thus means wherever.
See also
Esperanto correlatives
| Interrogative | Demonstrative | Indefinite | Universal | Negative | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ki- | ti- | i- | ĉi- | neni- | ||
| Kind of, sort of | -a | kia | tia | ia | ĉia | nenia |
| Reason | -al | kial | tial | ial | ĉial | nenial |
| Time | -am | kiam | tiam | iam | ĉiam | neniam |
| Place | -e | Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) | tie | ie | ĉie | nenie |
| Motion | -en | kien | tien | ien | ĉien | nenien |
| Manner | -el | kiel | tiel | iel | ĉiel | neniel |
| Possessive | -es | kies | ties | ies | ĉies | nenies |
| Demonstrative pronoun | -o | kio | tio | io | ĉio | nenio |
| Amount | -om | kiom | tiom | iom | ĉiom | neniom |
| Demonstrative determiner | -u | kiu | tiu | iu | ĉiu | neniu |
Middle English
Ter Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Uralic *ke.
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English keye, from Old French kay, cail.
Noun
kie
- quay
- 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 7-8:
- 'choo'd drieve aam aul awye to Kie o' Cress Farnogue, an maake aam cry, 'Rotheda Palloake !' "
- I would drive them all away to the quay of Cross Farnogue, and make them cry, 'Rotten Palluck !' "
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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