keta

See also: këta, kẹta, ketä, ķetā, and ķeta

English

Etymology

From Evenki [Term?].

Noun

keta (plural ketas)

1. A small salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) of North America.
   • 1810, John Smith, A System of Modern Geography:

     The rivers in June, July, and August, abound with ketas, and hump-backed salmon.

Anagrams

• Kate, kate, take, teak

Dutch

Noun

keta c (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. (slang) clipping of ketamine

   Synonym: ket

Gonja

Etymology

Possibly cognate with Gikyode gita, Chumburung ke̱ta, Nawuri kɩta, Nkonya ɩta.

Noun

keta

1. bow

Japanese

Romanization

keta

1. Rōmaji transcription of けた

Kapampangan

Etymology

From ka- +‎ ita.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /keˈta/ [kɛˈtä]

• Hyphenation: ke‧ta

Adverb

keta

1. yonder; there (far from both the speaker and the person addressed)

   Synonym: karin

2. to, towards (indicates a destination or movement toward something)

Pronoun

keta

1. these things; fact; matter

   Synonyms: kareta, kareni, kanita, bage

   Kalati keta makipate kana?

   You're fighting over a small thing?

   Aliya mengan i Jennie keta, dapat neng mangan keta.

   It's the fact that Jennie haven't eaten yet, what matters is she have to eat.

Derived terms

• kumeta
• magpaketa
• tagaketa

Malay

Alternative forms

• kete (schwa-variety)

Etymology

Clipping of kereta.

Pronunciation

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈketə/ [ˈke.t̪ə]
  • Rhymes: -tə

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /kəˈta/ [kəˈt̪a]
  • Rhymes: -ta
• Hyphenation: ke‧te

Noun

kéta (plural keta-keta or keta²)

1. (colloquial) syncopic form of kereta.

References

• Hoogervorst, Tom (2015), “Malay youth language in West Malaysia”, in NUSA‎^[1], volume 58, number 3, →DOI, archived from the original on 26 April 2025, page 29

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian кета (keta).

Noun

keta f (uncountable)

1. chum salmon

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	keta	ketaua
genitive-dative	—	-i
vocative	—

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ɛta
• Syllabification: ke‧ta

Noun

keta f

1. chain

Further reading

• keta in silling.org

Tocharian B

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćšáytram

Sanskrit क्षेत्र॑ (kṣétra)

Pali khettalbor.

Tocharian B keta

Probably a learned borrowing from Pali khetta.

Noun

keta ?

1. garden, field

Derived terms

• ketāṣṣe (“pertaining to fields, horticultural”)

Further reading

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “keta”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 204