qe

See also: q.e., QE, që, and 🜀

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • kje — dialectal

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [cɕɛ]

Verb

qe

  1. second-person singular simple perfect indicative of jam
  2. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of jam

Interjection

qe

  1. see!, look!, behold! (points out something with emphasis)
    Qe! Ja ku po shkoj!
    Look! That's where I am going!
    Qe si shkojnë punët!
    Look how things come out to be
  2. here! (used to show that something is present)
    Qe ku është!
    Here it is!

Noun

qe

  1. Indefinite plural of ka (“ox”).

Anjam

Pronunciation

Noun

qe

  1. fish

References

Fula

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Conjunction

qe

  1. and, with

Old French

Pronoun

qe

  1. Alternative form of que

Conjunction

qe

  1. Alternative form of que

Omaha-Ponca

Noun

qe

  1. mountain, hill

References

White Hmong

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /qe˧/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong *qæwᶜ (“egg”). Cognate with Proto-Mien *kləuᶜ (“id”),[1] as well as Old Chinese 卵 (OC *ɡ·roːlʔ, *ɡ·roːnʔ, “egg”);[2] note also similarities to Proto-Tai *qraj (“id”), whence Lao ໄຂ່ (khai, “id”) and Thai ไข่ (kài, “id”).

Noun

qe

  1. egg (classifier: lub)
  2. cocoon; chrysalis

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

qe

  1. to close; to shut
Synonyms

References
  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
  1. Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 92; 281.
  2. Baxter, William H., Sagart, Laurent (2014) Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Wutunhua

Etymology

From Mandarin 吃 (chī).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰə]

Verb

qe

  1. to eat
    Synonym: xhe
    momo qe! ― Eat some bread! (Quoted in Sandman, p. 308)

References
  • Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN
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