kis

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See also: KIs, kış, кіш, and киш

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kist, from Middle Dutch kiste, from Proto-Germanic *kistō, from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂.

Noun

kis (plural kiste, diminutive kissie)

  1. chest, box

Dalmatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

kis

  1. cheese

References

  • Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Danish

Noun

kis c (singular definite kisen, not used in plural form)

  1. sulfide mineral

Finnish

Interjection

kis

  1. used to attract a cat, often repeated
    kis kis, kippurahäntä
    here, kitty, kitty, "curly-tail"

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Turkic language, compare to Turkish küçük and Turkmen kiçi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkiʃ]
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Adjective

kis (comparative kisebb, superlative legkisebb)

  1. small, little
    Synonyms: kicsi, -ka, -ke, -cska, -cske, -ikó (the meaning of ’little’ is often expressed with diminutive suffixes in Hungarian)

Derived terms

Compound words
Expressions

Usage notes

Kis can only stand before a noun but never on its own. If it were to stand on its own (as a predicate, or a short reference to a noun phrase with this quality), kicsi must be used instead. (Note that the same syntactic difference exists between két and kettő in Hungarian, both of which mean 'two'.) Their distribution is comparable to that of "sick" and "ill" in English: "they are ill" (cf. kettő, kicsi, when used on their own) vs. "sick people" (cf. két, kis, i.e. used before a noun).

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish ken.

Pronoun

kis

  1. who

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

From Swedish kis (sense 1), and German Kies (sense 2)

Pronunciation

Noun

kis m (definite singular kisen, indefinite plural kiser, definite plural kisene)

  1. (slang) guy, dude
  2. (mineralogy) pyrite

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Swedish kis (sense 1), and German Kies (sense 2)

Noun

kis m (definite singular kisen, indefinite plural kisar, definite plural kisane)

  1. (slang) guy, dude
  2. (mineralogy) pyrite

Derived terms

References

Slovene

Etymology

Back-formation of kísel.

Pronunciation

Noun

kȋs m inan

  1. vinegar

Inflection

 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative kís
genitive kísa
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		kís
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		kísa
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		kísu
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		kís
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		kísu
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		kísom

Synonyms

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

kis c

  1. a boy
    en tuff kis
    a tough boy

Declension

Declension of kis 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative kis kisen kisar kisarna
Genitive kis kisens kisars kisarnas

Synonyms

Etymology 2

  1. pyrite, fool's gold

Declension

Declension of kis 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative kis kisen kiser kiserna
Genitive kis kisens kisers kisernas

Synonyms

References

Anagrams

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English kiss.

Noun

kis

  1. kiss

Volapük

Pronoun

kis

  1. what? (nominative, interrogative)
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