kev

See also: Kev, keV, and KeV

Translingual

Symbol

kev

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kanikkaran.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kanikkaran terms

Volapük

Noun

kev (nominative plural kevs)

1. cave, cavern

Declension

Declension of kev

	singular	plural
nominative	kev	kevs
genitive	keva	kevas
dative	keve	keves
accusative	kevi	kevis
vocative 1	o kev!	o kevs!
predicative 2	kevu	kevus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *kləuX (“road, way”). Cognate with Western Xiangxi Miao [Fenghuang] geud, Iu Mien jauv.

Possibly related to either Old Chinese 街 (OC *kreː, *kreː, “street, way”) or 道 (OC *[kə.l]ˤuʔ) (B-S), though whether via borrowing or via inheritance from a common source is unclear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke˧˦/

Noun

kev (classifier: txoj (lengths), tsem (sections of road), ceg (sections or directions of a journey))

1. road, street
2. matters, business, affairs

   Koj muaj kev dab tsi? ― What is your business? What do you want?

Classifier

kev

1. used to nominalize the word it modifies, used to indicate "the way of ...": -ness

   kev mob kev tuag ― sickness and death

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 80-1.