ky

ky

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kyrgyz.

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.

• kye

ky

1. (dialectal and Scotland) plural of cow

• kine

ky (uncountable)

1. (UK, naval slang) Alternative form of kye (“cocoa”)
   • 2005, Patrick Halliday, Survival, page 24:

     I put on a big fanny of Ky, that is a straight-sided pot of cocoa for them returning.

ky

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

• kyr

• YK

From Proto-Albanian *ka-ei, based on a pronominal element *ka and a demonstrative (see ai).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ky/

ky m

1. this

   Ky është libri im. — Ky libër është imi.

   This is my book. — This book is mine.

• kjo

• IPA^(key): [kiː], [kəi]

ky m (plural keun)

1. (Standard Cornish) dog

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

 m f

1. other, another [since the Pyramid Texts]

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 . In Late Egyptian this becomes a new general plural form, kt-ḫw .

• ky-ḏd
• ky-zp
• kt-st

• Coptic: ⲕⲉ- (ke-), ⲕⲉ (ke), ⲕⲉⲧ (ket), (plural) ⲕⲟⲟⲩⲉ (kooue)

 m

1. a kind of monkey

• kyt

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 110.4, 110.7–112.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 285
• 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
• Junge, Friedrich (2005) Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction, second English edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, page 61

ky

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

• YK

• IPA^(key): /kʲʰ/

ky (upper case Ky)

1. A letter of the Hupa alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• IPA^(key): /kʲ/

ky (uppercase Ky)

1. A letter of the Mam alphabet.

ky

1. Alternative form of kie