kie

See also: -kie and ki'e

English

Etymology

Compare kee.

Noun

kie pl (plural only)

  1. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) kine; cows
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

  • (file)

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

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ke.

Pronoun

kie

  1. who

Further reading


Yola

Noun

kie

  1. quay

References

  • J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)
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