khi
English
Noun
khi (plural khis)
- Alternative spelling of chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ), the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
- 1898, Claude Reignier Conder, The Hittites and Their Language, W. Blackwood and Sons, page 249:
- It is known, from the existence in his time1 of the Delphic tripod, that all these letters existed in 480 B.C. ; but on that monument the Khi and Psi differ from the forms used later.
- 1963, Thomas Albert Sebeok, Current Trends in Linguistics, Mouton, page 404:
- The letters upsilon, phi, khi, psi, δ were Greek additions
- 2006, Jonathan M. Hall, A History of the Archaic Greek World, Blackwell Publishing, page 57:
- Greek scripts display notable local characteristics — principally with regard to the shape of letters but also in the matter of the phonetic values attributed to signs such as san, sigma, khi, and psi.
- 1898, Claude Reignier Conder, The Hittites and Their Language, W. Blackwood and Sons, page 249:
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
khi f (plural khis)
French
Pronunciation
Noun
khi m (plural khi or khis)
- chi (Greek letter)
Further reading
- “khi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Adverb
khi
Pronoun
khi
Verb
khi
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Greek letter names
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns with no feminine ending
- Catalan terms spelled with K
- Catalan feminine nouns
- ca:Greek letter names
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French terms spelled with K
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Greek letter names
- Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Vietnamese lemmas
- Vietnamese adverbs
- Vietnamese pronouns
- Vietnamese verbs