ky

• kye

From Middle English ky, from Old English cȳ (“cows”), plural of cū (“cow”). Cognate with West Frisian kij (“cows”), Dutch koeien (“cows”), German Kühe (“cows”), Danish køer (“cows”), Icelandic kýr (“cows”). More at cow.

ky

1. (dialectal and Scotland) plural of cow

ky or kyr

1. (metrology) Symbol for the kiloyear, an SI unit of time equal to 10³ years.

• YK

From Proto-Indo-European *k̂(e)i, *k̂(i)i̯o 'this'. Cognate to Ancient Greek (Lesb.) κῆνος (kênos, “that”), Latin cis (“this side, this way”), Old Norse hann (“he”), English he.

• IPA^(key): /ky/

ky m

1. this

   Ky është libri im. — Ky libër është imi.

   This is my book. — This book is mine.

• IPA^(key): [kiː], [kəi]

ky m (plural keun)

1. (Standard Cornish) dog

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: ky

 m or f

1. other, another

Though a noun in Egyptian, ky frequently describes another noun, standing before it in apposition, and it is therefore often best translated into English as a determiner.

ky is an old dual noun, but its ‘dual’ forms are used with singulars when in apposition.

Declension of ky

	masculine	feminine
singular	—	—
dual	ky	, kt, kty
plural	, , , kjwj, kwj, kw	kt

By the end of Old Egyptian, the feminine plural fell out of use and the masculine plural became a general plural.

When ky stands alone rather than in apposition, it has a different plural form, kt-ḫt or kt-ḫj .

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 64.
• Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, § 98, page 78

ky

1. Alternative form of Ky (“(initialism of) kommandiittiyhtiö”)

• YK

ky

1. Alternative form of kie