kie
English
Etymology
Compare kee.
Noun
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “kie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Esperanto
Etymology
ki- (“interrogative and relative correlative prefix”) + -e (“correlative suffix of place”)
Pronunciation
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Conjunction
kie (accusative kien)
- where
- Tie li trovis post unuhora promenado kaj pridemandado la ponton, kie li trovos sian feliĉon.
- There he found, after one hour of walking and interrogating, the bridge, where he would find his happiness.
Adverb
kie (accusative kien)
Derived terms
Usage notes
Like other interrogative and relative correlatives, kie can be combined with ajn, the adverbial particle of generality. Kie ajn thus means wherever.
Middle English
Alternative forms
Noun
kie
Ter Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Uralic *ke.
Pronoun
kie
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Yola
Noun
kie
References
- J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)
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