kex

English

Alternative forms

• kix

Etymology

From Middle English kex. Origin unknown; but compare Welsh cecys (“hollow stalks”) and Welsh cegid (“hemlock”), apparently from the same root as Latin cicūta (“hemlock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛks/

Noun

kex (plural kexes)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
2. (obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
3. (rare) A dry husk or covering.
   • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 100-101:

     On the bedside table a new package of cigarettes and a traveling clock had for neighbor a nicely wrapped box containing the green figurine of a girl skier which shone through the double kix.

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Icelandic

Peanut butter cookies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cʰɛks/, /cʰɛxs/

Noun

kex n (genitive singular kex, nominative plural kex)

1. cookie, cracker, (UK) biscuit

Declension

declension of kex

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kex	kexið	kex	kexin
accusative	kex	kexið	kex	kexin
dative	kexi	kexinu	kexum	kexunum
genitive	kex	kexins	kexa	kexanna

Derived terms

Derived terms

• beinakex
• hafrakex
• hermannakex
• ískex
• kexbrauð
• kexkaka
• kexkassi

• kexpakki
• kexruglaður
• kextunna
• kexverksmiðja
• kremkex
• kúakex

• megrunarkex
• mjólkurkex
• ostakex
• rúgkex
• saltkex
• sjómannskex
• skipakex

• skipskex
• skútukex
• sódakex
• súkkulaðikex
• tekex
• þurrkex

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• kixe, kyx, kysk

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛks/, /kiks/

Noun

kex (plural kexis)

1. Any dried stem of a plant with a hollow interior.
2. (rare) A plant having a hollow stem; a member of the family Umbelliferae.

Descendants

• English: kex, kix
• Scots: kex

References

• “kex(e (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-12.

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Swedish

Alternative forms

• käx (dated)

Etymology

From English cakes, plural of cake, from Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (whence also kaka), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gog. The reason why the word is lent in the plural is because it is easier to apply the Swedish declension patterns with cakes than with cake. Compare the similar lones räls and muffins. Compare Danish kiks (similarly borrowed from English).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Svealand, Norrland) /kɛks/, (Götaland) /ɕɛks/

Noun

kex n

1. cookie, cracker, (UK) biscuit

Declension

Declension of kex
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	kex	kexet	kex	kexen
Genitive	kex	kexets	kex	kexens