Talk:ky

Cornish

In case anyone watches the Cornish lemmas, I will explain a change I made. 'Ky' was given here as an 'alternative form of "ki"', which of course refers to the Standard Written Form's system of kemmynesque main forms and traditional side-forms. However, 'ky' is not at all permitted in the Standard Written Form, which permits the traditional word-final 'y' only in unstressed position. The vowel in 'ky' is in stressed position and so has only the variants 'ki' and 'kei' in the Standard Written Form, with no traditional graph option. I have therefore co-opted this Cornish lemma for Standard Cornish, which uses the spelling 'ky' passim. TywysogMelyn (talk) 20:25, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Egyptian ky with dual nouns

I read the sentence “ky is an old dual noun, but its ‘dual’ forms are used with singulars when in apposition.” and I ask myself which forms are used with duals when in appositions. For example “another house” would be

“ky pr”, “another houses” would be

“kw prw”, but which form of “ky” would be used with

“prwj” (two houses). I am not sure about that. If somebody of you is, please write it there.

Zhnka (talk) 14:24, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

@Zhnka: Interestingly enough, in the entire corpus of the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (1.4 million words of Egyptian text), ky is never once attested in apposition with a dual noun. It’s quite possible it was simply never used in such an apposition (at least in the written language we have access to), or that it was rare enough that we simply don’t know — which wouldn’t be a surprise, given how rare most dual forms are to begin with. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 03:44, 11 September 2020 (UTC)